This gallery holds no reproductions and no collection of its own. Every painting and sculpture here is fetched live from the public-domain archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, two institutions that publish their collections openly for exactly this kind of use.
The Marchmont isn't a museum — it's a window onto two of them.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened in 1870 and now holds over two million works spanning five thousand years; in 2017 it began releasing high-resolution images and data for everything in its collection believed to be in the public domain, free for anyone to use without asking permission.
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, followed with its own open API, giving public access to the same kind of data — artist, medium, date, dimensions — for thousands of its public-domain holdings.
Every room below is built by querying those two archives directly, in your browser, right now. Nothing is stored or cached here; refresh the page and you may see a slightly different selection each time.