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. 12 shown for “La Triple Y Vresse” — 16 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:11 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
The search for a house in the country: What is especially beautiful, sir, is the view!, from 'Parisian habits,' published in Le Charivari, April 25, 1866, by Honoré Daumier

The search for a house in the country: What is especially beautiful, sir, is the view!, from 'Parisian habits,' published in Le Charivari, April 25, 1866

Honoré Daumier · April 25, 1866

Public domainThe Met
– What are you doing with these stretchers? – Monsieur, a reunion of the literary society is taking place in this house, from "News of the day", by Honoré Daumier

– What are you doing with these stretchers? – Monsieur, a reunion of the literary society is taking place in this house, from "News of the day"

Honoré Daumier · November 30, 1868

Public domainThe Met
I say, we are more advanced than the newspapers…. They stopped branding our kind years ago, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari", by Honoré Daumier

I say, we are more advanced than the newspapers…. They stopped branding our kind years ago, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier · April 12, 1870

Public domainThe Met
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain, by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Serpent labret with articulated tongue, by Mexica artist(s)

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860", by Isidore Pils

Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860"

Isidore Pils · ca. 1862–67

Public domainThe Met
Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper

Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Belt

Belt

Artist not stated in the record · 200–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 4 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 15:11 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.