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 “Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:29 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.
Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse

Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Arabesque Design

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Four Left Halves of Escutcheons, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Four Left Halves of Escutcheons

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Five Circular Representations of Young Women, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Five Circular Representations of Young Women, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman from the French Colonies, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Woman from the French Colonies

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman, by Carlo Maratti, Italian, 1625 - 1713

Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman

Carlo Maratti, Italian, 1625 - 1713 · 1650–1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a goddess

Marble head of a goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Woman, by George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938

Head of a Young Woman

George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938 · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sailboat and Crashing Wave, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sailboat and Crashing Wave

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Young Warrior, by Tullio Lombardo

A Young Warrior

Tullio Lombardo · 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Unknown, American

Portrait of a Young Woman

Unknown, American · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman with Closed Eyes, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman with Closed Eyes

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Young Woman

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a young woman

Bronze statuette of a young woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Portrait of a Young Woman

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

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. 1555 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3881059 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 18:29 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.