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 Sand” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 04:06 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.
Portrait of George Sand, by Luigi Calamatta

Portrait of George Sand

Luigi Calamatta · 1837

Public domainThe Met
Calamagrostis arenaria (L.) Roth

Calamagrostis arenaria (L.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Common Thistle (Chardon Commun), by George Sand

Common Thistle (Chardon Commun)

George Sand · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke

Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Fantastic Castle, by George Sand

Landscape with a Fantastic Castle

George Sand · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Newark Institute Hall!, by A. Hoen & Co.

Newark Institute Hall!

A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lemuel Shaw, by Southworth and Hawes

Lemuel Shaw

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Sand (Armandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant), French novelist (1804–1876), by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

George Sand (Armandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant), French novelist (1804–1876)

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Thomas, Henry Atwell

Maggie Mitchell

Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Star of Bethlehem, by First Baptist Church, Perth Amboy

Quilt, Star of Bethlehem

First Baptist Church, Perth Amboy · ca. 1845–48

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Thomas, Henry Atwell

Maggie Mitchell

Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–90

Public domainThe Met
Euphrasia purpurea var. farlowii (B.L. Rob.) Fernald & Wiegand

Euphrasia purpurea var. farlowii (B.L. Rob.) Fernald & Wiegand

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roger and Angelica Mounted on a Hippogriff (mouth closed, second version), by Antoine-Louis Barye

Roger and Angelica Mounted on a Hippogriff (mouth closed, second version)

Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled ca. 1840, cast ca. 1845-1850

Public domainThe Met
Heliotropium curassavicum L.

Heliotropium curassavicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1957 to 11 Dec 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Sand's Garden at Nohant, by Eugène Delacroix

George Sand's Garden at Nohant

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1842–43

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862

George Washington

Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 · c. 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847), by Eugène Delacroix

Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847)

Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum floridanum Michx.

Paspalum floridanum Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar), by Nadar

Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)

Nadar · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Ilex decidua Walter

Ilex decidua Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Peabody, by Southworth and Hawes

George Peabody

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Cynanchum laeve (Michx.) Pers.

Cynanchum laeve (Michx.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1938

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. 249 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 232217 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 2026-09-05 04:06 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.