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. 23 shown for “Charles Frederick Ulrich, 18 Oct 1858 - 15 May 1908” — 54 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:48 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.
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
Thomas Benedict Clarke, by Charles Frederick Ulrich, 18 Oct 1858 - 15 May 1908

Thomas Benedict Clarke

Charles Frederick Ulrich, 18 Oct 1858 - 15 May 1908 · 1884

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
A Chippeway Widow, by R. T., active c. 1830s

A Chippeway Widow

R. T., active c. 1830s · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Public domainThe Met
Okee-makee-quid, by Unidentified Artist

Okee-makee-quid

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
A-mis-quam - A Winnebago Brave, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

A-mis-quam - A Winnebago Brave

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
St. James's Street, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

St. James's Street

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Georgiana Augusta Frederica Elliott (1782–1813), Later Lady Charles Bentinck, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Georgiana Augusta Frederica Elliott (1782–1813), Later Lady Charles Bentinck

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Naw-kaw, by Unidentified Artist

Naw-kaw

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
A Little Red Note–Dordrecht, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

A Little Red Note–Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an officer

Portrait of an officer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Caa-tou-see, by Unidentified Artist

Caa-tou-see

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Landscape—a hunting scene

Landscape—a hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1526-1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

Public domainThe Met
Etching plate: Rotherhithe, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Etching plate: Rotherhithe

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing of animals and plants

Drawing of animals and plants

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3924484 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 2026-09-08 17:48 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.