With Courtauld Gallery Collection Online (COL) we make images of artworks that are not protected by copyright freely available for download. We release the images of such public domain works under a generous Creative Commons licence. Our goal is to advance the research, teaching, practice and enjoyment of art and art history and specifically to promote the understanding of the collection in our care.
This policy supports and promotes the open-access approach among museums and cultural heritage institutions in removing barriers to the reproduction of works that are in the public domain.
The implementation of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF-'triple-eye_ef’) on the COL website goes further by inviting users to digitally interact with and reuse The Courtauld collection in novel ways and linking it to other collections worldwide.
Since the launch of Courtauld Gallery Collection Online (COL) in 2023 we have given access to over 36,000 records of works in The Courtauld collection, of which 35,000 are in the public domain. Cataloguing and digitisation of yet unpublished works and new acquisitions are ongoing, and we continue to add more works and media to enrich our Collection Online.
Rights Information
Images identified on COL as ‘Work in the public domain’ are available for download under the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Noncommercial CC-BY-NC 4.0. Such images may be used for academic and non-commercial purposes under acceptance of the terms and conditions during the download process.
You will be asked to provide information on the planned use of the image. This information will help us better understand the interest The Courtauld holds for the public and provide a record of academic research that references its collection. Thank you for sharing this information with us.
To acknowledge The Courtauld Gallery and enable others to identify and locate information about its collections, we ask for the following credit with any use of one of our open access images: Image courtesy The Courtauld
For further guidance on rights, reproductions and commercial services please visit our Copyright Policy on The Courtauld website.
