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 “Photograph of a woman in a dark dress and a girl in a white dress” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:50 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.
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman in a dark dress and a girl in a white dress

Photograph of a woman in a dark dress and a girl in a white dress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children

Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children

Artist not stated in the record · 1864 - 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table, by George A. Schastey

Dressing table

George A. Schastey · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a girl wearing a pleated dress

Photograph of a girl wearing a pleated dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1900

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
Photograph of a family posing in front of a house

Photograph of a family posing in front of a house

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified man, child, and woman by Ball & Sons

Cabinet card of an unidentified man, child, and woman by Ball & Sons

Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar

Photograph of a young woman wearing a white dress with a dark colored collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress and glasses

Photograph of a woman wearing a dark colored dress and glasses

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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
Photograph studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair

Photograph studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire, by Peter Langlois

Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire

Peter Langlois · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman in a white dress with black ribbons on the left side

Photograph of a woman in a white dress with black ribbons on the left side

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman wearing a dress decorated with lace

Photograph of a woman wearing a dress decorated with lace

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 2612 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7484835 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 01:50 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.