FREN 303: Women, Royalty & Power: Finding Images

Search the digital resources (images, texts, sound, and video) of Europe's museums, libraries, and archives.
Each image record includes information on the license type—many images are available for download and use.

More than 375,000 high resolution images of public-domain works from the museum's collections. Entries often include links to essays from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History on themes, genres, and individual or groups of artists.

Paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities, sculpture, decorative arts, artists' sketchbooks, watercolors, rare prints from the 16th through the 18th century from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute made available for free public use and download.

Go to the Getty Collection to search and limit to Open Content Program. All images found through this program should be credited as "Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program".

Millions of images user-created and contributed images available for use. Keep in mind that you are relying on copyright information provided by the person uploading the image, which may or may not be accurate. Follow links provided to confirm the source of the image and that the uploader had the rights to license.

Over 150,000 free-to-use images of items from Paris museums, including Musée Carnavalet (Histoire de Paris) and Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris).