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 “Peter Young” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:40 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.
Creamer, by Peter Young

Creamer

Peter Young · 1775–95

Public domainThe Met
Finley Peter Dunne in Curves, by Arthur Henry Young, 14 Jan 1866 - 29 Dec 1943

Finley Peter Dunne in Curves

Arthur Henry Young, 14 Jan 1866 - 29 Dec 1943 · c. 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Peter Young

Tankard

Peter Young · 1775–95

Public domainThe Met
Passerella iliaca iliaca

Passerella iliaca iliaca

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
The Young American Sailor

The Young American Sailor

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Portrait of a young woman), by Sarony, Napoleon

Untitled (Portrait of a young woman)

Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Jacquemontia curtissii Peter ex Hallier f.

Jacquemontia curtissii Peter ex Hallier f.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
The Young Bride, by Baillie, James S.

The Young Bride

Baillie, James S. · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer

Peter Paul Rubens · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Peter Richards' Head for his Portrait, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch of Peter Richards' Head for his Portrait

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman Peeling Apples, by Nicolaes Maes

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

Public domainThe Met
Indian Mother, by Robinson, Henry R.

Indian Mother

Robinson, Henry R. · 1833-1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
The Young Widow, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Young Widow

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Herdsmen with Cows, by Aelbert Cuyp

Young Herdsmen with Cows

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1655–60

Public domainThe Met
A Happy Party, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

A Happy Party

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Clytia

Clytia

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Temperance Banner: Love, Purity, Fidelity by Kelloggs & Comstock, by Kelloggs & Comstock

Temperance Banner: Love, Purity, Fidelity by Kelloggs & Comstock

Kelloggs & Comstock · ca 1850

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. 566 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. 46064 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 09:40 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.