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 “Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:30 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert

Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert

Mrs. George H. (Anne Jane Hartley) Gilbert

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George H. Gilbert [Anne Jane Hartley]

Mrs. George H. Gilbert [Anne Jane Hartley]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: Dancers, by Edgar Degas

Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Augustin Daly's Stock Company, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Augustin Daly's Stock Company

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancers Practicing at the Barre, by Edgar Degas

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Edgar Degas · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Mary and Ann Hogarth's Shop Card

Mary and Ann Hogarth's Shop Card

Artist not stated in the record · 1720-1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Manumission receipt for Vister Campbell for his enlistment in the Union army, by Allen E. Forrester, American

Manumission receipt for Vister Campbell for his enlistment in the Union army

Allen E. Forrester, American · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. William Bingham, by Unidentified Artist

Mrs. William Bingham

Unidentified Artist · 1855

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
Jane Addams, by George de Forest Brush, 28 Sep 1855 - 24 Apr 1941

Jane Addams

George de Forest Brush, 28 Sep 1855 - 24 Apr 1941 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Horseman, by James Seymour

Portrait of a Horseman

James Seymour

Public domainThe Met
John Gilbert As Sir Peter Teazle, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

John Gilbert As Sir Peter Teazle

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Having Her Hair Combed, by Edgar Degas

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry), by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Melicope oahuensis (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone

Melicope oahuensis (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sulking, by Edgar Degas

Sulking

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Melicope wawraeana (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone

Melicope wawraeana (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1964

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. 58 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. 1188593 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 03:30 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.