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 “Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:20 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.
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), by Rachel Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)

Rachel Ruysch · 1692

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · June 18, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · January 6, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · January 6, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lute Player, by Valentin de Boulogne

Lute Player

Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · April 17, 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Letter, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Love Letter

Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · November 4, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955), by Auguste Renoir

The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955)

Auguste Renoir · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1862

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
Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Letter to David and Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters

Artist not stated in the record · January 27, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Letter, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Letter

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Letter remnant

Letter remnant

Artist not stated in the record · September 30, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · September 30, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue, by Edouard Manet

Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue

Edouard Manet · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Letter to David Walters from Rachel Ward

Letter to David Walters from Rachel Ward

Artist not stated in the record · July 28, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)

The Lamentation

Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters

Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters

Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Siesta, by Paul Gauguin

The Siesta

Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

Public domainThe Met
Letter to David Walters from Rachel Walters

Letter to David Walters from Rachel Walters

Artist not stated in the record · October 7, 1862

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. 553 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1165040 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 14:20 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.