# Art Institute of Chicago

> Art Institute of Chicago as searched by Image Asset Server: 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.

- Website: https://www.artic.edu
- Best for: 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.
- Categories: Art, History & archives, People & portraits, Nature & landscapes, Architecture & interiors
- Pricing: free
- Licence: set per image
- How it is searched: api
- Direct download through Image Asset Server: yes
- Restrict a search to it: `https://image.shep.bot/v1/search?q=...&providers=artic`
- Video listings counted 2026-11-04: 59,060, 59,060 free
- By category: Art 59,060

## What it 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

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.

## Example searches

- [Monet](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=monet&providers=artic)
- [Impressionism](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=impressionism&category=art.painting&providers=artic)
- [Etchings](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=etching&providers=artic)
- [Chicago](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=chicago&providers=artic)
- [Japanese prints](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=woodblock+print&providers=artic)

Guides: https://image.shep.bot/guides/museum-open-access-art.md

## In these collections

- [Public-domain Impressionist paintings](https://image.shep.bot/collections/public-domain-impressionist-paintings.md): 11 of 36
- [Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), free](https://image.shep.bot/collections/japanese-woodblock-prints.md): 10 of 36
- [Free botanical illustrations and plant drawings](https://image.shep.bot/collections/botanical-illustrations.md): 6 of 36

## Examples

- [Early Morning, Tarpon Springs](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64729) (`artic:64729`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/7624) (`artic:7624`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Botanical Specimen](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/38927) (`artic:38927`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992) (`artic:27992`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/4371) (`artic:4371`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- ["- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21535) (`artic:21535`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Flower Girl in Holland](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/138) (`artic:138`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/4368) (`artic:4368`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Madame Cabassol going for a romantic stroll in the botanical gardens together with the youngest friend of her husband's. Sudden encounter with the latter not far from a stag, plate 4 from Les Amis](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/141936) (`artic:141936`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [A Holiday](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71573) (`artic:71573`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/22935) (`artic:22935`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))
- [10 O'clock in the Morning. “Monsieur Coquelet having accidentally met Miss Palissandre in the Botanical Garden, to whom he had the good fortune to offer a fairy rose the first of May 1804, had obtained a first date. After having gone to great expense buying a new pair of gloves at 29 Sous, he throws a glance at the mirror before going out to try his good fortune,” plate 4 from La Journé Du Célibataire](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21581) (`artic:21581`, Public domain (museum open access, CC0))

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