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 “Maidens and a Victory” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:57 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.
Victory, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Victory

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–1903; this cast, 1914 or after (by 1916)

Public domainThe Met
Maidens and a Victory

Maidens and a Victory

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kore (maiden)

Marble statue of a kore (maiden)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass medallion of winged Victory

Glass medallion of winged Victory

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the letters V and X of a Pictoral Alphabet: Victoire/Xystus (Victory in the Xystus), by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the letters V and X of a Pictoral Alphabet: Victoire/Xystus (Victory in the Xystus)

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning Minerva; two roundels, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning Minerva; two roundels

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalcedony statuette of Nike (Victory)

Chalcedony statuette of Nike (Victory)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden

Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/1/32

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ursula and Her Maidens, by Niccolò di Pietro

Saint Ursula and Her Maidens

Niccolò di Pietro · ca. 1410

Public domainThe Met
A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning a River God, Reno; two roundels, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning a River God, Reno; two roundels

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Dodonaea hirsuta (Maiden & Betche) Maiden & Betche

Dodonaea hirsuta (Maiden & Betche) Maiden & Betche

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Victory Alighting on Earth, by Gilles-Lambert Godecharle

Victory Alighting on Earth

Gilles-Lambert Godecharle · 1809

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Female Figure (Victory), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Study of a Female Figure (Victory)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oil lamp

Terracotta oil lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
World War II Victory Garden poster, by Miller, J. Howard

World War II Victory Garden poster

Miller, J. Howard · 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Female Figure (Victory), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Study of a Female Figure (Victory)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vision of Victory, by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

A Vision of Victory

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Epacris hamiltonii Maiden & Betche

Epacris hamiltonii Maiden & Betche

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Panel: Medallion with a Sacrifice Scene between Two Victories Adorning Candelabra, by Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795

Decorative Panel: Medallion with a Sacrifice Scene between Two Victories Adorning Candelabra

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795 · 1759–95

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. 1187 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. 2777330 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-05 07:57 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.