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 “Figure of a seated official” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 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.

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.

Seated Official

Seated Official

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel and Seated Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camel and Seated Figure

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Botanical Studies with a Seated Figure, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Botanical Studies with a Seated Figure, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably May 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Tableau Allégorique, pour L’Année Jubilaire du Regne de Louis Le Bien-Aimé

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figural Group of a Cherub and a Seated Lady, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Figural Group of a Cherub and a Seated Lady

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure Sketches by the Surf, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure Sketches by the Surf, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Figures, by John La Farge, American, 1835–1910

Seated Figures

John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 · October 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature: Seated Figure, by Unknown

Miniature: Seated Figure

Unknown · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of a Nude Figure in Classical Pose and a Seated Figure, by Andrea del Sarto, Italian, 1486 - 1530

Sketches of a Nude Figure in Classical Pose and a Seated Figure

Andrea del Sarto, Italian, 1486 - 1530 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A "Pow Wow" at the White House, by Thure de Thulstrup, 1848 - 1930

A "Pow Wow" at the White House

Thure de Thulstrup, 1848 - 1930 · January 22, 1881

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. 3857193 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 05:46 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.