Open Access
Paris Musées is offering digital downloads of masterpieces.

"On January 8 "Paris Musées announced that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collections portal. Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs."


Eugène Atget, “Coin des rues de Seine et de l’Echaudé, 6ème arrondissement, Paris” (1911), albumen print, from the collection of the Musée Carnavalet (CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet)

"Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image."

Article: Masterpieces by Renowned Artists Such as Rembrandt, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, And Anthony Van Dyck, Among Many Other Familiar and Lesser-Known Names, Can Now Be Accessed and Enjoyed Digitally.