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. 18 shown for “Geranium robertianum L.” — 50 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:55 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.
Roses, by Vincent van Gogh

Roses

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Hashim

"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Hashim · recto: ca. 1620; verso: 1537–47

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory, by Paul Cézanne

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory

Paul Cézanne · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geranium robertianum L.

Geranium robertianum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1925

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1293441 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 10:55 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.