Openart Animals: 31,511 Public-Domain Artworks Depicting Fauna

31,511 public-domain artworks focused on animals and the natural world, including 15,920 paintings and illustrations and 15,407 photographed objects. Each work is paired with a structured visual-language model caption and metadata on medium, attribution, and inscriptions. The dataset was created by jaddai and last updated on Hugging Face in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Train image-captioning models based on the structured VLM captions for diverse artistic depictions of fauna.
• Analyze the distribution of artistic mediums (e.g., carved, cast, glazed) used to represent animals across cultures and time periods.
• Fine-tune classifiers to identify animal species or artistic styles within a large, labeled collection of public-domain art.
• Study metadata patterns, such as artist attribution and inscriptions, within a thematic art collection.

Strengths

• Contains 31,511 individual artworks, providing substantial scale for model training.
• Includes a structured VLM caption for each work, which likely provides detailed, machine-readable descriptions.
• Covers multiple artistic mediums, with 15,920 paintings/illustrations and 15,407 photographed objects.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal or source bias inherent to the original OpenArt collection.

Provenance

Source

Part of the OpenArt family of open, public-domain art datasets.

Collection Method

Likely aggregated and processed from multiple public-domain art sources, with added structured captions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 01:42:21; freshness should be verified.