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 “George Barret, the younger” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:00 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.
Arcadian landscape, by George Barret, the younger

Arcadian landscape

George Barret, the younger · 1820–42

Public domainThe Met
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
Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest, by George Barret, the younger

Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest

George Barret, the younger · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera serrulata Nutt.

Oenothera serrulata Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
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
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
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
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), by Joseph Nollekens

William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806)

Joseph Nollekens · 1807

Public domainThe Met
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
Christ and the Adulteress, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ and the Adulteress

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
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
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
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
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
A Family Praying

A Family Praying

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sir George Wombwell and His Brothers, by Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880

Portrait of Sir George Wombwell and His Brothers

Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Little Crow the Younger, by Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886

Little Crow the Younger

Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Smokers, by Adriaen Brouwer

The Smokers

Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger, by Unidentified (British)

Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger

Unidentified (British) · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir James Dashwood (1715–1779), by Enoch Seeman the Younger

Sir James Dashwood (1715–1779)

Enoch Seeman the Younger · 1737

Public domainThe Met
Plan of a Belvedere Taken on the Terrace Level; Plan of the Ground Floor, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Plan of a Belvedere Taken on the Terrace Level; Plan of the Ground Floor

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 18th century

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. 347 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1312645 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 08:00 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.