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 “Child’s Ruffled Satin Dress” — 61 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:57 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
Child’s Ruffled Satin Dress

Child’s Ruffled Satin Dress

Artist not stated in the record · Between 1930 and 1940

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
Pink floral lace dress with ruffled skirt, by Tutti's Fashions, American

Pink floral lace dress with ruffled skirt

Tutti's Fashions, American · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1814

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

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1610

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child's Robe

Child's Robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1957-1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll and Costume

Paper Doll and Costume

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing the Children, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ Blessing the Children

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–30

Public domainThe Met
Black Raggedy Ann style doll with ivory dress, by Unidentified

Black Raggedy Ann style doll with ivory dress

Unidentified · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Barnard, by John Michael Rysbrack

John Barnard

John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Child's gown

Child's gown

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bashi-Bazouk, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

Public domainThe Met
Net and lace child's dress with satin floral ribbon, by Unidentified

Net and lace child's dress with satin floral ribbon

Unidentified · 1910s-1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1, by Rudolph Ackermann, London

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1

Rudolph Ackermann, London · January–June 1809

Public domainThe Met
Dress worn by Denyce Graves in Washington National Opera's production of Carmen, by Donna Langman, American

Dress worn by Denyce Graves in Washington National Opera's production of Carmen

Donna Langman, American · 1993-1994

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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 8 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. 36770 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 11:57 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.