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 “Cabinet photograph of young woman” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 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.
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet photograph of young woman

Cabinet photograph of young woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of three young women

Cabinet card of three young women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander

Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Having Her Hair Combed, by Edgar Degas

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar

Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman Peeling Apples, by Nicolaes Maes

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of a young woman holding a fan

Cabinet card of a young woman holding a fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman standing and a woman sitting

Photograph of a woman standing and a woman sitting

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a young woman wearing a black dress

Photograph of a young woman wearing a black dress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of two men and two women

Photograph of two men and two women

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Ida Allston

Cabinet card of Ida Allston

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace), by Kephisodotos

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman standing with a pedestal table

Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman standing with a pedestal table

Artist not stated in the record · 1880s

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. 422 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2905989 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.