Images

The Open Content Images Collection provides public domain image access to many image sources!
Image types: photographs, visual materials, digitized manuscripts, vessels, sculpture, coins and more.

Discover thousands of images from the Met collections, many of which can be download and used.
Their Open Access Artworks portal provides more than 375,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection.
Image types: a variety visual arts and media (painting, photography, sculpture, prints & drawing, etc.)

•More than 88,000 works are currently available online and over 26,000 artists!
•Image types: a variety visual art and media (painting, photography, sculpture, prints & drawings, etc.)

High resolution images of paintings in museum collections.
Image types: mainly paintings.

Over 16 million records of museum objects, archives, and library materials including thousands of online images.
Image types: drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, painting, textiles, and metalwork.

•+100,000 searchable images of art owned by the center. Some listings include bibliographies related to the work.
Image types: paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture.

Gateway to California's remarkable digital collections! Free access to unique and historically important artifacts
These have been digitized by all 10 UC campuses and other libraries, archives, museums throughout California.
Image types: photographs, paintings, artists' books, drawings & prints, and more.

A growing digital archive of primary source material culled by individual art practitioners and researchers in cities across Asia.

Access millions of public domain images. Even a Cat Collection!
Image types: photographs, architecture, prints, posters, maps, and more.

Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to share cultural heritage
Their digital collections are extensive with a range of image resources in art, fashion, archaeology, manuscripts, photography, and more!
Image types: search their Art Collection to find paintings, drawings, engravings, and sculpture

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and includes a robust digital image collection.
Beyond visual art images, you'll also find many images related to performing arts as well as maps and plans.
Image types: prints & drawings, poster designs, and more.

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains digital images representing still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division of ht Library of Congress and offers broad public access to these digital images that are national and international in scope.
Example collections : performing arts posters, daguerreotypes, Japanese prints, pre-1915, African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition; Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs, among many others.
Image types: posters, photographs

Free & open access to +800,000 images that are digitized from the NYPL collections. Strong emphasis in: Africana & Black History; Dance in Photographs and Prints.
Image types: photographs, prints, posters (mainly)

PHAROS is an international consortium of 14 European & North American art historical photo archives.
The digital research platform allows for consolidated access to photo archive images and their associated scholarly documentation.
Image types: drawings, prints, fresco, miniatures, etc.