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 “Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:01 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.
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes

Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume with Muff and Blue Cloak

Paper Doll Costume with Muff and Blue Cloak

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands

Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll and Costume

Paper Doll and Costume

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly, by Master of Saint Giles

Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly

Master of Saint Giles · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in White with Black Spots

Paper Doll Costume in White with Black Spots

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Pink with Black Lace and Yellow Bodice

Paper Doll Costume in Pink with Black Lace and Yellow Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground, by Théodore Chassériau

Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground

Théodore Chassériau · ca. 1846

Public domainThe Met
Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion), by Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836

Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion)

Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in White with Red Roses

Paper Doll Costume in White with Red Roses

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace

Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

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
Chapan (robe)

Chapan (robe)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

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. 158 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. 7483641 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 17:01 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.