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. 20 shown for “Frederick William Wright, 1867 - 1946” — 54 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:56 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.
Breton Brother and Sister, by William Bouguereau

Breton Brother and Sister

William Bouguereau · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Julius Fleischmann, by Frederick William Wright, 1867 - 1946

Julius Fleischmann

Frederick William Wright, 1867 - 1946 · c. 1920-25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Silas Wright, by E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867

Silas Wright

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, by Annibale Carracci

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness

Annibale Carracci · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R.D. Webster

Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R.D. Webster

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Grant and His Family, by William Sartain, 1843 - 1924

Grant and His Family

William Sartain, 1843 - 1924 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Wilbur Wright to Samuel P. Langley, dated May 30, 1899. Page 1 of 2., by Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912

Letter from Wilbur Wright to Samuel P. Langley, dated May 30, 1899. Page 1 of 2.

Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabs Crossing a Ford, by Eugène Fromentin

Arabs Crossing a Ford

Eugène Fromentin · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Wilbur Wright to Samuel P. Langley, dated May 30, 1899. Page 2 of 2., by Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912

Letter from Wilbur Wright to Samuel P. Langley, dated May 30, 1899. Page 2 of 2.

Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Body of Sergeant Wyllyams, by Unidentified Artist

Body of Sergeant Wyllyams

Unidentified Artist · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, by Joseph Wright, 16 Jul 1756 - c. 11 Oct 1793

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg

Joseph Wright, 16 Jul 1756 - c. 11 Oct 1793 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 1 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. 402258 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 13:56 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.