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. 22 shown for “Griselda” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 11:37 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.
Purse with scenes from the story of Patient Griselda

Purse with scenes from the story of Patient Griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Griselda toshimai

Griselda toshimai

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure, by Maya artist(s)

Seated female figure

Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pelochrista griselda

Pelochrista griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Forsyth (1749–1814), by Sir Henry Raeburn

William Forsyth (1749–1814)

Sir Henry Raeburn · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Pelochrista griselda

Pelochrista griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Theological Virtues: Faith, Charity, Hope, by Italian (Umbrian) Painter

The Theological Virtues: Faith, Charity, Hope

Italian (Umbrian) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Pelochrista griselda

Pelochrista griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Female Figure

Seated Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Griselda radicana

Griselda radicana

Artist not stated in the record · [Not Stated]

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Eucosma griselda

Eucosma griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sulking, by Edgar Degas

Sulking

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Griselda

Griselda

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Graphiurus murinus

Graphiurus murinus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Dremomys pernyi pernyi

Dremomys pernyi pernyi

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes, by Vincent van Gogh

Shoes

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Graphiurus murinus

Graphiurus murinus

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At the Milliner's, by Edgar Degas

At the Milliner's

Edgar Degas · 1882

Public domainThe Met
The Dancing Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dancing Class

Edgar Degas · ca. 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. 32 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 46 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 11:37 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.