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 “Franz Richard Unterberger” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:21 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.
[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Austria], by Franz Richard Unterberger

[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Austria]

Franz Richard Unterberger · 1870s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Androsace lactea L.

Androsace lactea L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Erigeron glabratus Auct.

Erigeron glabratus Auct.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of King Ludwig II of Bavaria's Neo-Rococo Sleigh, by Franz Seitz

Model of King Ludwig II of Bavaria's Neo-Rococo Sleigh

Franz Seitz · 1872–80

Public domainThe Met
Dicranum elongatum Schleich. ex Schwägr.

Dicranum elongatum Schleich. ex Schwägr.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/9/9

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Tree, by Tina Blau

Study of a Tree

Tina Blau · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Draba beckeri A. Kern.

Draba beckeri A. Kern.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Helleborus niger L.

Helleborus niger L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Florinda, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Florinda

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Oreopanax membranaceus Rusby

Oreopanax membranaceus Rusby

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press, by Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner

Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Dendropanax membranaceus J. Wen & A. Fuentes

Dendropanax membranaceus J. Wen & A. Fuentes

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Soap Bubble, by Gilles Demarteau

The Soap Bubble

Gilles Demarteau · 1756–76

Public domainThe Met
Erythrochiton fallax Kallunki

Erythrochiton fallax Kallunki

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gardanne, by Paul Cézanne

Gardanne

Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
Schistocarpha eupatorioides (Fenzl) Kuntze

Schistocarpha eupatorioides (Fenzl) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palmesel

Palmesel

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Physalis pubescens L.

Physalis pubescens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A scallop shell chariot, by William Carter

A scallop shell chariot

William Carter · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Hernandia sp.

Hernandia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Visit to A. Roelants, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Visit to A. Roelants

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1989

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. 127 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. 67405 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 11:21 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.