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 yellow dress” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:27 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 yellow dress

Angel with yellow dress

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

Public domainThe Met
Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress, by Unidentified

Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress

Unidentified · 1960s - 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Yellow A-line dress with cap sleeves, by Unidentified

Yellow A-line dress with cap sleeves

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Yellow v-neck dress with pink and yellow silk poncho, by Harold Stone, American, founded 1951

Yellow v-neck dress with pink and yellow silk poncho

Harold Stone, American, founded 1951 · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands

Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

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
Red and yellow dress worn by Janet Jackson as Penny Woods on Good Times, by Rita Riggs, American, born 1930

Red and yellow dress worn by Janet Jackson as Penny Woods on Good Times

Rita Riggs, American, born 1930 · December 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

Public domainThe Met
Yellow striped dress with asymmetrical collar, by Unidentified

Yellow striped dress with asymmetrical collar

Unidentified · ca.1965

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
Marianne in Yellow, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Marianne in Yellow

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Yellow cocktail dress designed by Don Loper and worn by Ella Fitzgerald, by Don Loper, American, 1906 - 1972

Yellow cocktail dress designed by Don Loper and worn by Ella Fitzgerald

Don Loper, American, 1906 - 1972 · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Evening Dress, by Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834

Evening Dress

Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nose ornament with intertwined creatures, by Moche artist(s)

Nose ornament with intertwined creatures

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dress worn by Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons, by Betsey Potter, American

Dress worn by Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons

Betsey Potter, American · 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Antonio Rossellino

Madonna and Child with Angels

Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Coaching Scene

Coaching Scene

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress ornament

Dress ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dress designed by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1950

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. 659 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 308858 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 12:27 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.