How to Download Art for Free
Love Vincent van Gogh’s Irises? You’re in luck.
Looking at Irises by Vincent van Gogh
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At the Getty Center and Getty Villa Museum, we have thousands of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks in our galleries.
But did you know that we have even more artwork online? Our digital Museum Collection holds many more images of art owned by Getty.
And, thanks to our Open Content program, which makes high-resolution images of public domain artwork available, you can download over 160,000 of them for free.
How to Download Getty Art for Free
If you want, for example, your own copy of Vincent van Gogh’s Irises to use as your desktop background, simply pop the artist’s name and/or the title of the work into the search bar.
Then select “Has Images” and “Open Content” to find the images that are free to download. Then hit “Search” and you’re there.
You’ll see “Public Domain” beneath all of our free images, along with a link to download them in high resolution.
You can also find more information to the left of the image. Did you know that Van Gogh painted Irises when he was a patient at an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France? Or that his brother was responsible for introducing Irises to the public?
Portrait of Pope Clement VIII, 1600–1601, designed by Jacopo Ligozzi, produced in the Galleria de’Lavori in pietre dure, executed by Tadda (Romolo di Francesco Ferrucci). Marble, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, limestone, and calcite (some covering painted paper or fabric cartouches) on and surrounded by a silicate black stone, 38 3/16 × 26 3/4 in. Getty Museum, 92.SE.67
Saint Ginés de la Jara, about 1692, Luisa Roldán. Polychromed wood (pine and cedar) with glass eyes, 69 1/4 × 36 3/16 × 29 1/8 in. Getty Museum, 85.SD.161
Study of the Model Joseph, Théodore Géricault, about 1818–1819. Oil on canvas, 18 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. Getty Museum, 85.PA.407
And Irises isn’t the only work of art that you can download for free. Have a favorite painter? You can find paintings by Paul Cézanne, a still life by Claude Monet, sketches by Edgar Degas, any of the artworks above, and many more by lots of other artists.
Don’t have an artist in mind? You can also search for “sculptures,” “flowers,” “illuminated manuscripts,” “dragons,” or anything you’d like.
And when you find them, you can zoom way in or see more views than you can in the gallery.
And when you find them, you can zoom way in or see more views than you can in the gallery.
They’re great for Zoom backgrounds, wall art, or DIY cards. Turn them into memes, have them printed on a T-shirt—the possibilities are endless.
And you never know what you’ll find. Images are continuously added to Getty’s Open Content database as more objects are acquired by the museum and as others enter the public domain.
So if you see a very cool work of art, shoot us an email at stories[at]getty.edu and let us know how you used it!
