diff --git a/src/mistral_common/multimodal.py b/src/mistral_common/multimodal.py
index a167a77..88224c3 100644
--- a/src/mistral_common/multimodal.py
+++ b/src/mistral_common/multimodal.py
@@ -7,11 +7,14 @@
 from pydantic import BeforeValidator, PlainSerializer, SerializationInfo
 from typing_extensions import Annotated
 
+from mistral_common import __version__
+
 
 def download_image(url: str) -> Image.Image:
+    headers = {"User-Agent": f"mistral-common/{__version__}"}
     try:
         # Make a request to download the image
-        response = requests.get(url)
+        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
         response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an error for bad responses (4xx, 5xx)
 
         # Convert the image content to a PIL Image
diff --git a/src/mistral_common/tokens/tokenizers/base.py b/src/mistral_common/tokens/tokenizers/base.py
index 3853a4b..b51f917 100644
--- a/src/mistral_common/tokens/tokenizers/base.py
+++ b/src/mistral_common/tokens/tokenizers/base.py
@@ -150,8 +150,7 @@ def __call__(self, content: Union[ImageChunk, ImageURLChunk]) -> ImageEncoding:
         ...
 
     @property
-    def image_token(self) -> int:
-        ...
+    def image_token(self) -> int: ...
 
 
 class InstructTokenizer(Generic[InstructRequestType, FIMRequestType, TokenizedType, AssistantMessageType]):
@@ -182,8 +181,7 @@ def encode_user_message(
         is_first: bool,
         system_prompt: Optional[str] = None,
         force_img_first: bool = False,
-    ) -> Tuple[List[int], List[np.ndarray]]:
-        ...
+    ) -> Tuple[List[int], List[np.ndarray]]: ...
 
     @abstractmethod
     def encode_user_content(
@@ -192,5 +190,4 @@ def encode_user_content(
         is_last: bool,
         system_prompt: Optional[str] = None,
         force_img_first: bool = False,
-    ) -> Tuple[List[int], List[np.ndarray]]:
-        ...
+    ) -> Tuple[List[int], List[np.ndarray]]: ...
diff --git a/tests/test_multimodal.py b/tests/test_multimodal.py
index c385e45..ffb7161 100644
--- a/tests/test_multimodal.py
+++ b/tests/test_multimodal.py
@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@ def test_image_to_num_tokens(mm_config: MultimodalConfig, special_token_ids: Spe
         assert mm_encoder._image_to_num_tokens(img) == (exp1, exp2)
 
 
+def test_download_gated_image(mm_config: MultimodalConfig, special_token_ids: SpecialImageIDs) -> None:
+    mm_encoder = ImageEncoder(mm_config, special_token_ids)
+
+    url1 = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/2015_Kaczka_krzy%C5%BCowka_w_wodzie_%28samiec%29.jpg"
+    url2 = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/002_The_lion_king_Snyggve_in_the_Serengeti_National_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg"
+
+    for url in [url1, url2]:
+        content = ImageURLChunk(image_url=url)
+        image = mm_encoder(content).image
+
+        assert image is not None, "Make sure gated wikipedia images can be downloaded"
+
+
 def test_image_encoder(mm_config: MultimodalConfig, special_token_ids: SpecialImageIDs) -> None:
     mm_encoder = ImageEncoder(mm_config, special_token_ids)