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 “Oscillatoria princeps f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:27 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.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Oscillatoria princeps f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1900

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian), by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · ca. 1814–15

Public domainThe Met
Arthrospira jenneri f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Arthrospira jenneri f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Irises, by Vincent van Gogh

Irises

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Arthrospira jenneri f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Arthrospira jenneri f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roses, by Vincent van Gogh

Roses

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1903

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
Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Oscillatoria salinarum Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle sword

Sickle sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1275 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1890

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
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), by Gustav Klimt

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Village in a Valley, by Théodore Rousseau

A Village in a Valley

Théodore Rousseau · late 1820s

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1943

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7461405 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 00:27 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.