The Getty Provenance Index® (GPI) contains over 12 million digitized, open-access resources that trace the origins, movements, and lineages of art and cultural artifacts.
In its own words: https://www.getty.edu/databases-tools-and-technologies/provenance/, read 2026-10-29
| What receives provenance | a work of art and the documents of its ownership and sale |
| Relations carried | ownership; sale; dealer stock; inventory; payment to artists |
| Carrier | transcribed primary documents: archival inventories, auction and dealer sales catalogs, dealer stock books |
| Expresses · records · tests | expressesrecordstests |
| Operations tested | none |
| What survived | not tested |
op the operator's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
| Canonical name | Getty Provenance Index |
| Also known as | GPI, Getty Provenance Index® |
| Address | https://www.getty.edu/databases-tools-and-technologies/provenance/ |
| Operator | Getty Research Institute (J. Paul Getty Trust) |
| Founded | 1974 by Burton Fredericksen (home page); the initiative page places its beginning in the early 1980s op |
| Kind | database (linked open data) |
| Unit | a resource drawn from a primary document |
| Lifecycle | active — transitioning to linked open data; archival inventories to follow op |
| Count | over 12 million digitized, open-access resources (as of 2026-10-29) |
| Data access | the Remodeled Index (Arches, linked open data) and the Legacy Index during the transition |
| Versions and dates | digital: 1984; cd rom: 1994; online: 1998; read: 2026-10-29 op |
| Observation | 2026-10-29: read |
None recorded yet.
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Record https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/getty-provenance-index · entity https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/getty-provenance-index#entity · the census as data
@misc{pe-gettyprovenanceindex2026,
editor = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {Getty Provenance Index},
howpublished = {Provenance meta-aggregator, Provenance Erasure},
year = {2026},
note = {Compiled 2026-10-29; every field sourced and dated},
url = {https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/getty-provenance-index}
}