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Washington Crossing the Delaware. By Emanuel Leutze, American, 1851. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This photograph of a major painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was obtained for free  by Blogfinger thanks to a new program at the Met where anyone can obtain a photo of any of 375,000 works of art obtained from their web site.  There is no charge, and the users can do anything they wish with the image including putting it on a coffee cup.  This program will be huge for education and media.

This image represents our first attempt to take advantage of the program.

The painting shows George Washington and 2,400 men crossing the Delaware River from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to attack 1,500 Hessian soldiers in Trenton, New Jersey on December 25, 1776.

Thanks to George Washington and his men, Bruce and the rest of us enjoy our freedoms of speech today.   Springsteen captures the  American energy depicted in Luetze’s portrayal of this Christmas attack.

–Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Posted in Blogfinger Presents | Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art | 4 Comments

4 Responses

1. on February 12, 2017 at 6:05 pm Doubting Thomas

   So this is how George Washington handled the illegal immigrant problem.

   
   
2. on February 11, 2017 at 10:10 pm Frank S

   Wow . Quite generous of them . Unusual too . Most museums charge fee for commercial usage .Guess catch is the copyright issue . Wonder if other major museums(such as MOMA , Whitney , Getty, Etc.) will follow ??

   
   
3. on February 11, 2017 at 6:37 pm Blogfinger

   This quote is from the Met: “You are welcome to use images of artworks in The Met’s collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain, or those to which the Museum waives any copyright it might have, for any purpose, including commercial and noncommercial use, free of charge and without requiring permission from the Museum.
   To identify these images, look for the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon ( ) directly below the image:

   Check link below:

   http://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2017/open-access

   
   
4. on February 11, 2017 at 6:17 pm Frank S

   ” Users can do anything they wish with the image ” . Not so quick . Not so sure about that . I believe usage is just for personal, private, and educational purposes . I do not think one can use these fotos commercially for profit . For that I think a licensing fee would be charged(and rightly so) .

   
   

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