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 “Couple at a Window” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:34 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.
Window

Window

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Couple at a Window

Couple at a Window

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jubal and Miriam, by William Jay Bolton

Jubal and Miriam

William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Public domainThe Met
Textiles

Textiles

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated couple, by "Barnes Foundation Master"

Seated couple

"Barnes Foundation Master" · 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained-glass window, by Evert Duyckinck

Stained-glass window

Evert Duyckinck · ca. 1656

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Press kit for the film Black Gold

Press kit for the film Black Gold

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

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
Sav-A-Stamp postal scale

Sav-A-Stamp postal scale

Artist not stated in the record · 1944-1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Couples and the Buffoon

Two Couples and the Buffoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York, by John La Farge

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York

John La Farge · 1908–9

Public domainThe Met
Wheeling on Riverside Drive, by Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA

Wheeling on Riverside Drive

Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses presenting the tablets of law, by Valentin Bousch

Moses presenting the tablets of law

Valentin Bousch · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren

Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren

Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior with a Young Couple, by Pieter de Hooch

Interior with a Young Couple

Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65

Public domainThe Met
Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, by Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies Blown in the Wind, by John La Farge

Peonies Blown in the Wind

John La Farge · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853, by George Pyne, English, 1800 – 1884

George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853

George Pyne, English, 1800 – 1884 · 1853

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. 1977 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1894958 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 2026-09-03 10:34 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.