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Artstor: A Guide

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Image Citations

MLA Style - Works Cited entry

Cite the artists' name; title of the artwork, italicized; the date of composition; the institution and city in which the artwork is located; database name, italicized; your date of access.

 

Example with no artist name:

Apron. Fourth quarter, 19th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
     New York. JSTOR. https://jstor.org/stable/community.14798354.
     Accessed 27 Aug. 2024.

 

Example with artist name:

Raphael. Saint George and the Dragon. c. 1504. Musée du Louvre,
     
Paris. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18137342.
     A
ccessed 27 Aug. 2024.

When using the JSTOR citation tool to generate a citation on Artstor/JSTOR, the medium of a pictured work may also be added to the citation, and if there is no artist name, it may be added as "Unknown."