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Art Institute of Chicago

About 59k public-domain artworks with images: Impressionist and modern paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and textiles. CC0, served over IIIF at any size up to the full scan.

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Licence: Set per image
Pricing: Free
Direct download: Yes, straight from the source
Subjects: Art, History & archives, People & portraits, Nature & landscapes, Architecture & interiors
How it is searched: Official or public API
Images (counted November 4, 2026): 59,060
By category: Art 59,060

Biggest categories: paintings.

What Art Institute of Chicago is

The Art Institute of Chicago publishes over 60,000 public-domain artworks under CC0 through its open API: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings (Monet, Seurat, Caillebotte), American art, prints and drawings, photography and Asian art.

Best for

Impressionist paintings, prints and drawings, American art, delivered through IIIF at any size you need.

Licence and what it means for you

Public-domain works are released under CC0: free for any use. Only works the museum marks public domain are searched.

How Image Asset Server searches it

Through the museum's keyless API (api.artic.edu), filtered to public-domain works. Images come from its IIIF image server, which renders any width on request: 400 px for thumbnails, 843 px for display, larger for downloads.