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 “Female figure holding infant” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:21 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.
Female figure holding infant

Female figure holding infant

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Beggars, Venice, Italy, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Beggars, Venice, Italy

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House post figure, by Lake Sentani artist

House post figure

Lake Sentani artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Figures, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Figures

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Master of the Female Half-Lengths

Virgin and Child

Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

Public domainThe Met
Figure Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated female figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing: A) Rhea and the infant Jupiter. B) St. Francis of Assisi

Drawing: A) Rhea and the infant Jupiter. B) St. Francis of Assisi

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait in Silhouette, by Augustin-Amant-Constance Fidele Edouart, French, active England and USA, 1789 - 1861

Portrait in Silhouette

Augustin-Amant-Constance Fidele Edouart, French, active England and USA, 1789 - 1861 · 1839-1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine of the Virgin

Shrine of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure), by Okak-Fang artist

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)

Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Figures Attacked by Serpents

Figures Attacked by Serpents

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated male figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated male figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Saturn, from The Seven Planets

Saturn, from The Seven Planets

Artist not stated in the record · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure

Female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mountain Ridge near Al-Zabadani, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain Ridge near Al-Zabadani, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 5 or 6 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Adoration of the Shepherds

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1750–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Estate Figure

Estate Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Icon, Madonna and Child

Design for an Icon, Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling female figure, by Lagunillas artist(s)

Kneeling female figure

Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1865–75

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. 742 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 611147 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 21:21 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.