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 “Egon Schiele” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:50 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.
Self-Portrait, by Egon Schiele

Self-Portrait

Egon Schiele · 1911

Public domainThe Met
Grus canadensis

Grus canadensis

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Observed in a Dream, by Egon Schiele

Observed in a Dream

Egon Schiele · 1911

Public domainThe Met
Two Reclining Nudes, by Egon Schiele

Two Reclining Nudes

Egon Schiele · 1911

Public domainThe Met
Amischotolype marginata (Blume) Hassk.

Amischotolype marginata (Blume) Hassk.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nude in Black Stockings, by Egon Schiele

Nude in Black Stockings

Egon Schiele · 1917

Public domainThe Met
Guioa pleuropteris (Blume) Radlk.

Guioa pleuropteris (Blume) Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining Nude, by Egon Schiele

Reclining Nude

Egon Schiele · 1918

Public domainThe Met
Ploiarium alternifolium (Szyszyl.) Melch.

Ploiarium alternifolium (Szyszyl.) Melch.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Street Cart, by Egon Schiele

Street Cart

Egon Schiele · 1914

Public domainThe Met
Adinandra verrucosa Stapf

Adinandra verrucosa Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lilly Steiner, by Egon Schiele

Lilly Steiner

Egon Schiele · 1918

Public domainThe Met
Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.

Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1984 to 16 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman in Chemise, by Egon Schiele

Seated Woman in Chemise

Egon Schiele · 1914

Public domainThe Met
Camellia lanceolata (Blume) Seem.

Camellia lanceolata (Blume) Seem.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman and Girl Embracing, by Egon Schiele

Woman and Girl Embracing

Egon Schiele · 1918

Public domainThe Met
Adinandra subsessilis Airy Shaw

Adinandra subsessilis Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nude, by Egon Schiele

Nude

Egon Schiele · 1917

Public domainThe Met
Timonius sp.

Timonius sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining Nude with Boots, by Egon Schiele

Reclining Nude with Boots

Egon Schiele · 1918

Public domainThe Met
Nepenthes albomarginata T. Lobb ex Lindl.

Nepenthes albomarginata T. Lobb ex Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couple Embracing, by Egon Schiele

Couple Embracing

Egon Schiele · 1911

Public domainThe Met
Nepenthes burbidgeae Hook. f. ex Burb.

Nepenthes burbidgeae Hook. f. ex Burb.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 960 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 23:50 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.