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 “Figure of a Standing Dog” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:26 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.
Figure of a Standing Dog

Figure of a Standing Dog

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Dog, Shown from Behind, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Dog, Shown from Behind

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tomb figure of a barking dog

Tomb figure of a barking dog

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure Sketches with Dogs, Port Said, Egypt, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure Sketches with Dogs, Port Said, Egypt

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 6-10, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Little Master cup

Terracotta Little Master cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Sibyl

Standing Sibyl

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a Poodle

Figure of a Poodle

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brahma

Brahma

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Figures on Road, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Figures on Road

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Figures in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Figures in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Standing Female Deity, probably Durga

Artist not stated in the record · ca. last quarter of the 7th century–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

Standing figure

Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
A Port (Port de Mer d'Italie)

A Port (Port de Mer d'Italie)

Artist not stated in the record · After 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Parvati

Standing Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · ca. first quarter 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Kenyon Van Kock - Van Dyck (Self-Portrait with Dog), by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Kenyon Van Kock - Van Dyck (Self-Portrait with Dog)

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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. 3938 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3857872 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 10:26 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.