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 “Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:54 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.

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1636

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pa-hú-sha, White Hair, the Younger, a Band Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pa-hú-sha, White Hair, the Younger, a Band Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sporobolus pyramidatus (Lam.) Hitchc.

Sporobolus pyramidatus (Lam.) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan Genéral des Batiments des Jardins et d’une partie des dependances d’un Projet fait sur L’emplacement de Donzdorf situé dans le Pays du Wirtemberg appartenant a Monsieur Le Baron de Rechberg Chambellant et Chr. de St. George au Servisse de S.A.S.E. de Baviere, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Plan Genéral des Batiments des Jardins et d’une partie des dependances d’un Projet fait sur L’emplacement de Donzdorf situé dans le Pays du Wirtemberg appartenant a Monsieur Le Baron de Rechberg Chambellant et Chr. de St. George au Servisse de S.A.S.E. de Baviere

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waltheria indica L.

Waltheria indica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pa-ris-ka-roó-pa, Two Crows, the Younger, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pa-ris-ka-roó-pa, Two Crows, the Younger

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé, by Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752

Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé

Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cordia sebestena L.

Cordia sebestena L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sida spinosa L.

Sida spinosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Family Praying

A Family Praying

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paspalum laxum Lam.

Paspalum laxum Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1995

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. 1317712 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 06:54 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.