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. 22 shown for “Memorial Portrait of Catharine Schultz (1789-1832)” — 58 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:29 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.
Memorial Portrait of Catharine Schultz (1789-1832)

Memorial Portrait of Catharine Schultz (1789-1832)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
Catharine Lewis, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Catharine Lewis

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · 1881

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
Catharine Lewis, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Catharine Lewis

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer in the Mosque, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque

Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Public domainThe Met
Catharine Lewis, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Catharine Lewis

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

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
Catharine Williams and William Mead, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Catharine Williams and William Mead

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943), by Gustav Klimt

Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)

Gustav Klimt · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses, by Horace Vernet

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses

Horace Vernet · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Olaudah Equiano, by Daniel Orme, 1766 - 1832

Olaudah Equiano

Daniel Orme, 1766 - 1832 · 1789

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Anne Catharine Hoof Green, by Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Anne Catharine Hoof Green

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah Boardman, by John Ramage

Elijah Boardman

John Ramage · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Jared Sparks, by Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864

Jared Sparks

Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia, by Robert Peake the Elder

Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia

Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606

Public domainThe Met
Celebrated Authors, by Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864

Celebrated Authors

Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Towel cover, by Maria Schultz

Towel cover

Maria Schultz · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Richard Morris Hunt, by Karl Theodore Bitter

Richard Morris Hunt

Karl Theodore Bitter · 1891, cast 1892

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 2866093 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:29 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.