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 “Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:05 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.
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

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

Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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
Carte-de-visite of a young woman in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young woman in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

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

Carte-de-visite of a young boy in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

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
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

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

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

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

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

Carte-de-visite of a young family in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of an young boy holding a rifle in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of an young boy holding a rifle in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young man wearing a long overcoat in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young man wearing a long overcoat in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman and child in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman and child in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Bather, by Gustave Courbet

The Young Bather

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young woman

Carte-de-visite of a young woman

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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 71 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-04 22:05 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.