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. 12 shown for “Emanuel Leutze” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 24 May 1816 - 18 Jul 1868

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 24 May 1816 - 18 Jul 1868 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Thomas Kelly, based on original by Emanuel Leutze, by Kelly, Thomas

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Thomas Kelly, based on original by Emanuel Leutze

Kelly, Thomas · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Countess, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

The Countess

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Courtship of Anne Boleyn, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

The Courtship of Anne Boleyn

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Nesting, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

Bird Nesting

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Dunn Finney, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

Elizabeth Dunn Finney

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eliza Stoles Longacre, by Unidentified Artist

Eliza Stoles Longacre

Unidentified Artist · c. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Barnett Dodson, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

James Barnett Dodson

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail of cartoon for mural Westward the Course of Empire..., by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

Detail of cartoon for mural Westward the Course of Empire...

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife, by Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892

Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife

Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife, by Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892

Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife

Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892 · 1846

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 798 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 02:32 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.