The Art Institute of Chicago's API at https://api.artic.edu/api/v1 covers its whole collection. Images are served through IIIF using each artwork's image_id.
None — no key, no signup. Every example runs as-is.
Full reference: https://api.artic.edu/docs/
fields picks the fields; 27992 is Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
curl "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/27992?fields=id,title,artist_display,date_display,image_id"{
"data": {
"id": 27992,
"title": "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884",
"date_display": "1884–86, border added 1888–89",
"artist_display": "Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)",
"image_id": "2d484387-2509-5e8e-2c43-22f9981972eb"
},
"info": {
"license_text": "The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.",
"license_links": [
"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
"https://www.artic.edu/terms"
],
"version": "1.15"
},
"config": {
"iiif_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2",
"website_url": "http://www.artic.edu"
}
}curl "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/search?q=cats&limit=2&fields=id,title,artist_display"{
"preference": null,
"pagination": {
"total": 133118,
"limit": 2,
"offset": 0,
"total_pages": 66559,
"current_page": 1
},
"data": [
{
"_score": 92.274994,
"id": 656,
"title": "Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal)",
"artist_display": "Edward Kemeys (American, 1843–1907)\nAmerican Bronze Founding Company (American, founded 1886)\nChicago"
},
{
"_score": 60.496178,
"id": 45259,
"title": "Nude with Cats",
"artist_display": "Pablo Picasso\nSpanish, active France, 1881-1973"
}
],
"info": {
"license_text": "The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.",
"license_links": [
"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
"https://www.artic.edu/terms"
],
"version": "1.15"
},
"config": {
"iiif_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2",
"website_url": "http://www.artic.edu"
}
}