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 “Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:29 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.
Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man

Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man

Artist not stated in the record · 300–500

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bartolomeo di Miniato (d. 1548)

Portrait of Bartolomeo di Miniato (d. 1548)

Artist not stated in the record · 1730-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table Clock, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Table Clock

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
IIE. SUITE DE VASES, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

IIE. SUITE DE VASES

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Man, by Giuseppe Sabatelli, Italian, 1813–1843

Portrait of a Young Man

Giuseppe Sabatelli, Italian, 1813–1843 · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Postcard of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie

Postcard of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie

Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for an Oil Lamp

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Man

Portrait of a Young Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
A group portrait of young men from the High School YMCA Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Unidentified

A group portrait of young men from the High School YMCA Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Unidentified · ca. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with Gloves, by Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of a young man

Cabinet card of a young man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of J.B. Say

Portrait of J.B. Say

Artist not stated in the record · 1805-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Young Man with Sketchbook, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Young Man with Sketchbook

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young mustachioed man in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young mustachioed man in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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. 5913 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3992148 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 17:29 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.