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. 17 shown for “Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960” — 51 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:18 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.
Barbara Claes (died 1663, called “Malle Babbe”), by Frans Hals

Barbara Claes (died 1663, called “Malle Babbe”)

Frans Hals

Public domainThe Met
Skyscrapers, New York, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Skyscrapers, New York

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1907–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Snowy Landscape (Étude-Formes), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Snowy Landscape (Étude-Formes)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Two Evening Landscapes, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Two Evening Landscapes

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Nine Landscapes (Study of Forms in Space), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Nine Landscapes (Study of Forms in Space)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with River, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Landscape with River

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seaport, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Seaport

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coastal Landscape, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Coastal Landscape

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thirteen Landscape Studies (Optics in Composition), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Thirteen Landscape Studies (Optics in Composition)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View Across a River, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

View Across a River

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · October 8, 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Landscape Studies, New Milford, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Six Landscape Studies, New Milford

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hillside and Tree with Sailboats in Distance, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Hillside and Tree with Sailboats in Distance

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Landscape Studies, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Six Landscape Studies

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 245 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-29 15:18 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.