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 “Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:51 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.
A Barber at Work and Men Waiting Their Turn, by Nina de Garis Davies

A Barber at Work and Men Waiting Their Turn

Nina de Garis Davies · 1922; original ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

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
Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Madam C.J. Walker

Photograph of Madam C.J. Walker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odalisque in Grisaille, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Odalisque in Grisaille

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1824–34

Public domainThe Met
DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy., by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy.

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · after 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

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

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s - 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter, by Jean Marc Nattier

Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter

Jean Marc Nattier · 1749

Public domainThe Met
Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Two sets of bangles, part of a lehenga costume worn by Nina Davuluri in the Miss America 2014 pageant

Two sets of bangles, part of a lehenga costume worn by Nina Davuluri in the Miss America 2014 pageant

Artist not stated in the record · before 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838), by Augustin Pajou

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)

Augustin Pajou · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920s

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. 236 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. 7483684 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 03:51 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.