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 portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:04 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 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 portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat

Photograph portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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
A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman

A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear

Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear

Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1915

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
Photographic print of Eunice Jackson, Samuel M. Jackson Jr and two women, by Unidentified

Photographic print of Eunice Jackson, Samuel M. Jackson Jr and two women

Unidentified · 1926

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
Tintype of an woman wearing a hat, by Unidentified

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat

Unidentified · 1860s

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
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
Portrait of a Woman, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Woman

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Sally Cathrell, a man and a woman

Photographic postcard of Sally Cathrell, a man and a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), by David Morier

Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)

David Morier · ca. 1751–60

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a man and two women

Photograph of a man and two women

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

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 Dr. Townsend with three individuals

Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals

Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Henri Fantin-Latour

Portrait of a Woman

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

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
Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man

Frans Hals · early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

Photographic postcard of three unidentified women

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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. 2596 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. 3891086 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 05:04 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.