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 “Miniature figure of a standing lady” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:26 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Costume Studies: Three Standing Figures

Costume Studies: Three Standing Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature longcase clock with calendar, by Daniel Quare

Miniature longcase clock with calendar

Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Studies of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature figure of a standing lady

Miniature figure of a standing lady

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Infant Christ

Infant Christ

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Eye of a Lady, by Unidentified (European)

Eye of a Lady

Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
A Lady Promenading, by Edouard de Beaumont, French, 1821 - 1888

A Lady Promenading

Edouard de Beaumont, French, 1821 - 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Noble and Lady, by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Noble and Lady

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Lady, by Pamelia Hill, born Framingham, MA 1803-died Framingham, MA 1860

Portrait of a Lady

Pamelia Hill, born Framingham, MA 1803-died Framingham, MA 1860 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature kettle and stand, by John Le Sage

Miniature kettle and stand

John Le Sage · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Title Page

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Little Master cup

Terracotta Little Master cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan and case

Brisé fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature cruet stand, by David Clayton

Miniature cruet stand

David Clayton · 1720–23

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Lady, by William Verstille, born Boston, MA ca. 1755-died Boston, MA 1803

Portrait of a Young Lady

William Verstille, born Boston, MA ca. 1755-died Boston, MA 1803 · ca. 1790

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. 4785 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. 3858512 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 21:26 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.