Credits
Art credits and sources
All 17 paintings in the game are public-domain artworks. This page says where each image came from.
Every classic painting in the game is a public-domain artwork, taken either from a museum's CC0 / open-access programme or from Wikimedia Commons. The four pictures in Your collection are original works by Dünya Üçer, used with the family's permission.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. See “Why these are free to use” below for the reasoning.
The paintings
| # | Work | Artist (died) | Held at | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) | Georges Seurat (d. 1891) | Art Institute of Chicago | artic.edu — 1926.224 | CC0 |
| 2 | Tropical Forest with Monkeys (1910) | Henri Rousseau (d. 1910) | National Gallery of Art, Washington | nga.gov — 1982.76.7 | Public domain |
| 3 | Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) | Edward Hicks (d. 1849) | National Gallery of Art, Washington | nga.gov — 1980.62.15 | Public domain |
| 4 | Surprised! (Tiger in a Tropical Storm) (1891) | Henri Rousseau (d. 1910) | The National Gallery, London | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 5 | The Hunters in the Snow (1565) | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569) | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 6 | Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (c. 1608) | Hendrick Avercamp (d. 1634) | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | rijksmuseum.nl — SK-A-1718 | Public domain |
| 7 | The Dream (1910) | Henri Rousseau (d. 1910) | MoMA, New York | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 8 | The Starry Night (1889) | Vincent van Gogh (d. 1890) | MoMA, New York | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 9 | Children's Games (1560) | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569) | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 10 | The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1831) | Katsushika Hokusai (d. 1849) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | metmuseum.org — JP1847 | CC0 |
| 11 | Ophelia (1852) | John Everett Millais (d. 1896) | Tate, London | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 12 | Apples and Oranges (c. 1899) | Paul Cézanne (d. 1906) | Musée d'Orsay, Paris | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 13 | The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark (1613) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (d. 1625) | J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 14 | The Menagerie (c. 1690) | Melchior d'Hondecoeter (d. 1695) | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — SK-A-173 | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 15 | Landscape with Birds (1628) | Roelant Savery (d. 1639) | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna — GG 1082 | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 16 | The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (c. 1615) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (d. 1625) & Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640) | Mauritshuis, The Hague | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| 17 | The Garden of Earthly Delights, left panel (c. 1490–1510) | Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) | Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
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Turkish titles shown in the app: Grande Jatte Adası'nda Bir Pazar · Maymunlu Tropik Orman · Barışçıl Krallık · Sürpriz! · Kardaki Avcılar · Buz Patencili Kış Manzarası · Rüya · Yıldızlı Gece · Çocuk Oyunları · Kanagawa'da Büyük Dalga · Ophelia · Elmalar ve Portakallar · Hayvanlar Gemiye Giriyor · Hayvan Koleksiyonu · Kuşlu Manzara · Cennet Bahçesi · Cennet Bağı.
Your collection — original family artwork
| Work | Artist | Rights |
|---|---|---|
| The Tree and the Little Animals (2026) | Dünya Üçer | © the Üçer family — used with permission |
| The Big Swordfish (2026) | Dünya Üçer | © the Üçer family — used with permission |
| Monkeys and Crocodiles (2026) | Dünya Üçer | © the Üçer family — used with permission |
| The Waterfall and the Eagles (2026) | Dünya Üçer | © the Üçer family — used with permission |
These are the family's own drawings. They are not public domain and are not licensed for reuse by others; they appear in the app with the family's permission.
Why these are free to use
- The artworks are in the public domain. Copyright in a painting lasts, at most, for the artist's life plus 70 years. The most recent artists here — Rousseau (d. 1910) and Cézanne (d. 1906) — passed that threshold decades ago, so every painting is in the public domain worldwide.
- Faithful photographs of flat artworks add no new copyright. A straight, faithful photographic reproduction of a 2-D public-domain work does not create a fresh copyright in the United States (Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel, 1999) or in the EU (Directive 2019/790, Article 14). So the high-resolution scans are free to use as well.
- Sources are chosen to avoid even contractual friction. Where a museum runs a formal open-access programme the image is taken from there and dedicated to the public domain under CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, The Met) or released as public-domain open data (National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum). The rest come from Wikimedia Commons, where the public-domain status is documented on each file page. This sidesteps the “terms of use” fine print that some museum websites attach to their own downloads — a contractual matter, separate from copyright.
Caveats
- This is general information, not legal advice. For commercial App Store distribution, a lawyer's sign-off is the only way to be 100% certain.
- A museum's website terms of use can restrict downloads from that site even when the underlying artwork is public domain. Using the CC0 / open-access sources or Wikimedia Commons above keeps the project clear of that.
- Dünya Üçer's drawings are not public domain — they are the family's, used by permission.