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 “Dilophus flabellatus Collins in Collins et al.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 22:46 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.
German Landscape with View toward a Broad Valley, by Fritz Petzholdt

German Landscape with View toward a Broad Valley

Fritz Petzholdt · ca. 1829–30

Public domainThe Met
Dilophus flabellatus Collins in Collins et al.

Dilophus flabellatus Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1899 and 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Callithamnion halliae Collins in Collins et al.

Callithamnion halliae Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph, by Paul Cézanne

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph

Paul Cézanne · late 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape

Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian), by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · ca. 1814–15

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), by Gustav Klimt

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Public domainThe Met
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1981 to 8 Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Cladophora gracilis f. subflexuosa Collins in Collins et al.

Cladophora gracilis f. subflexuosa Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle sword

Sickle sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1275 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scinaia complanata (Collins in Collins et al.) Cotton

Scinaia complanata (Collins in Collins et al.) Cotton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/12/73

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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7462677 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-10 22:46 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.