OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Angel with Blue dress (tattered) with detachable wings” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:31 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Angel with Blue dress (tattered) with detachable wings

Angel with Blue dress (tattered) with detachable wings

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel, by Bannister Hall Printworks

Panel

Bannister Hall Printworks · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress panel

Dress panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Nurse's uniform dress worn by Pauline Brown Payne

Nurse's uniform dress worn by Pauline Brown Payne

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying, Blue Angels, United States Navy, Scott Kartvedt, by Flight Suits, Ltd.

Suit, Flying, Blue Angels, United States Navy, Scott Kartvedt

Flight Suits, Ltd. · ca. 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Welcome Panel

Welcome Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Blue cloche with detached brim, by Unidentified

Blue cloche with detached brim

Unidentified · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 16th-early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Coral collared dress with embellishments and detachable train, by Mme. Berthe

Coral collared dress with embellishments and detachable train

Mme. Berthe · 1930s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Schwartz-Huguenin

Textile

Schwartz-Huguenin · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Schwartz-Huguenin

Textile

Schwartz-Huguenin · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 39 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 345254 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 12:31 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.