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 young woman wearing a black dress” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 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.
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 black dress

Photograph of a young woman wearing a black dress

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
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
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of young woman in striped dress

Tintype of young woman in striped dress

Artist not stated in the record · Late 1860s

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

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of 4 women sitting in front of a sofa

Photographic print of 4 women sitting in front of a sofa

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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
Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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
Tintype of a young woman with a white child

Tintype of a young woman with a white child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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
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
Tintype of a young woman with a white child, by Unidentified

Tintype of a young woman with a white child

Unidentified · ca. 1865

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
Photograph of a woman standing and a woman sitting

Photograph of a woman standing and a woman sitting

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a man and woman standing in front of a car, by Unidentified

Photographic print of a man and woman standing in front of a car

Unidentified · 1920s

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
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
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman

Photograph of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

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. 2082 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. 3903378 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.