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 “Dapper Dan, American, born 1945” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:20 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.
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
Brown leather pants designed by Dapper Dan for Rakim, by Dapper Dan, American, born 1945

Brown leather pants designed by Dapper Dan for Rakim

Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Washington, by Benoit Louis Prevost

General Washington

Benoit Louis Prevost · 1781

Public domainThe Met
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo, by Dapper Dan, American, born 1945

Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo

Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · ca. 1990

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
Hand-illustrated cover

Hand-illustrated cover

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902), by Edgar Degas

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)

Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Public domainThe Met
Dan Rice. The Celebrated Shaksperian [sic] Clown, by G. & W. Endicott

Dan Rice. The Celebrated Shaksperian [sic] Clown

G. & W. Endicott · 1846-1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau

Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Public domainThe Met
Allee dans le Parc, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Allee dans le Parc

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Classical Landscape with Figures, by Henri Mauperché

Classical Landscape with Figures

Henri Mauperché

Public domainThe Met
Tombeaux Dans la Vallee de Josaphat, Jerusalem, by T. Deshayes, French, n.d.

Tombeaux Dans la Vallee de Josaphat, Jerusalem

T. Deshayes, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Déruet

Departure of the Amazons

Claude Déruet · 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral, Panama, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Cathedral, Panama

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Solola, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Solola, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triumph of the Amazons, by Claude Déruet

Triumph of the Amazons

Claude Déruet · 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

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
Amapala, Honduras, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Amapala, Honduras

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Cathedral, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

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. 34 matched · 24 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. 1070858 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-02 19:20 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.