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 “Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 15:26 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.
Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age

Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Figure Studies, by Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756

Figure Studies

Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer), by Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02

Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer)

Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Uniform cap and cap badge

Uniform cap and cap badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
La Caravane du Caire

La Caravane du Caire

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Badge

Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
A Youthful Pilgrim

A Youthful Pilgrim

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown

Carte-de-viste of officer's quarters at Fort Brown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase, by George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase

George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925 · 1924

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
Member badge for the Deborah Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, by Order of the Eastern Star, American, founded 1850

Member badge for the Deborah Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star

Order of the Eastern Star, American, founded 1850 · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Maher Brothers

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Maher Brothers · 1893 - 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Old Woman in Turban, by Unidentified

Old Woman in Turban

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio, by Marie Victoire Lemoine

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio

Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Old Woman, by Eugène Burnand, Swiss, born Moudon, Switzerland 1850-died Paris, France 1921

Old Woman

Eugène Burnand, Swiss, born Moudon, Switzerland 1850-died Paris, France 1921 · n.d.

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. 77 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. 1583570 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 2026-08-30 15:26 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.