Research Guides: Art History: Images

JSTOR Image Search

JSTOR Image Search
JSTOR Image Search includes curated collections of digital images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Over 1 million images including Decorative Arts, Fashion, Photography and Graphic Design.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online
Integrated searchable access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and more. (Limited to 3 simultaneous users)

ResearchTip: To find images, search by keyword then filter results by Format = Image.
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Art & Design Museum Digital Images Sources - Free for Academic/Scholarly Use

The following museums provide access to images for scholarly purposes.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provides images at no cost to scholars via ARTstor's existing infrastructure, through the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program.
The British Museum
The free digital image service is managed by usage rather than user. The British Museum offers non-exclusive licenses to use the selected material free of charge.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
Free high resolution image download is determined by usage rather than user. A non-exclusive license is granted to use the selected material free of charge.
The Louvre - Digital Collections
The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. It includes paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, jewelry and more.
National Gallery of Art
Through NGA Images, the National Gallery of Art implements an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are now available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial.
The Walters Art Museum
Images of objects from the Walters' collections are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Yale University Art Museums
Provides license- and royalty free access to digital images of public domain materials in all Yale collections. Open Access materials may be used by anyone for any purpose. This is not restricted to scholarly uses only.
Frick Digital Image Archive
Thousands of images from the Frick Collection, known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. Free for Personal Use in Education, Teaching, Academic Study and Research.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
LACMA's collection includes objects dating from antiquity to the present, especially Asian, Latin American and Islamic art. Content on the Site marked “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available” is available for free, unrestricted Use.
The Rijksmuseum
The national museum of the Netherlands, "the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages onwards, and of major aspects of European and Asian art." Images from the website in the public domain are available for download and creative reuse with a Rijksstudio account
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
70,000 high-resolution images of Chinese artifacts and artworks ranging from paintings to antiquities.
Getty Search Gateway
Find images by conducting a search and then limiting your results to "Open Content Images". All images found through this program should be credited as "Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program" (see http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html).
The Art Institute of Chicago
Thousands of images of works in every medium from all cultures and historical periods. Many are available with a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license -filter by Show Only=Public Domain.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s 2D and 3D digital images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.