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 “H. Boulanger et Cie” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 15:25 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.
Vertical Duct Flute in D, by H. Boulanger et Cie

Vertical Duct Flute in D

H. Boulanger et Cie · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
First Arabesque Penchée, by Edgar Degas

First Arabesque Penchée

Edgar Degas · modeled probably before 1890, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design, by Pignet et Cie

Wallpaper Design

Pignet et Cie · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spanish Dancer (Second State), by Edgar Degas

Spanish Dancer (Second State)

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Dites Merci, by Meillier et Cie

Dites Merci

Meillier et Cie · ca. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground, by Edgar Degas

Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

Edgar Degas · modeled after 1878, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Psyche et l'amour, by Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848

Psyche et l'amour

Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Getting out of the Bath, by Edgar Degas

Woman Getting out of the Bath

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

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

Woman Stretching

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Earrings, bracelet and brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (Fourth State), by Edgar Degas

Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (Fourth State)

Edgar Degas · modeled before ca. 1895–1900, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andromache and Astyanax, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · ?1813–17; 1823–24?

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressed Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg Forward (Second State), by Edgar Degas

Dressed Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg Forward (Second State)

Edgar Degas · modeled possibly ca. 1895, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Paul et Virginie, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Paul et Virginie

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman Wiping her Left Hip, by Edgar Degas

Seated Woman Wiping her Left Hip

Edgar Degas · modeled possibly ca. 1896, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist altarpiece

Buddhist altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · 597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (First State), by Edgar Degas

Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (First State)

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1895–1910, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
First Arabesque Penchée, by Edgar Degas

First Arabesque Penchée

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1892–96, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Gremont et Cie.

Fragment

Gremont et Cie. · ca. 1800

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. 639 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 984181 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 15:25 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.