Open Data
The Dataset
193,155 public-domain paintings by 28,175 artists, held by 5,092 institutions and catalogued across 224 movements and 2,812 subjects. Every work is in the public domain (CC0); images come from the museums that hold them.
| Paintings | 193,155 |
|---|---|
| Artists | 28,175 |
| Institutions | 5,092 |
| Movements | 224 |
| Subjects | 2,812 |
Rights
Every painting in the catalog is in the public domain. Images are served from the museums that hold the works. We add no rights claims of our own. What public-domain and CC0 mean for reuse is explained on the public-domain & CC0 page.
Fields available per work
| Field | Type | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
title | text | most works |
artist | entity | where attributed |
year_canonical | integer | most works |
movement(s) | entity links | where classified |
genre / subject(s) | entity links | where classified |
dominant_color + palette | hex + families | works with an image |
holding venue | entity | where known |
dimensions (cm) | real | where published |
wikidata_id | identifier | where linked |
image (CC0 master) | URL | every shipping work |
Coverage is honest by policy: a field is present where the source institution published it and omitted where unknown — never inferred or guessed.
By the numbers
Largest movements
- Romanticism 25,594
- Impressionism 24,436
- Realism 23,625
- Baroque 15,170
- Renaissance 10,489
Most-represented artists
- Unknown 24,579
- Honoré Daumier 2,419
- Carven 1,939
- Marie-Louise Carven 1,750
- Jacques Callot 1,530
Citing the catalog
If you use a work or these figures in research or teaching, cite the source institution for the artwork and Artifact World Gallery for the catalogued record:
Artifact World Gallery. "<work title>" [dataset record].
Source collection: <holding institution>. Public domain (CC0).
Retrieved from https://artifactworldgallery.com/artwork/<slug>Crawling the catalog
- Sitemap index — every page in the catalog
- Prints sitemap — every artwork available as a fine-art print
- The Palette Atlas — colour by century
- The Visual Twin Index — near-identical works across artists
- Collection-data reports — the archive counted by movement, colour, and century
A machine-readable llms.txt guide is on the way.