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 studio portrait of a woman standing with a wooden chair” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:01 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.
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
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
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

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
Photographic postcard portrait of a woman standing with a chair

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman standing with a chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Pink, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Woman with a Pink

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

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 postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

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

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a woman named Ida Cox

Photographic postcard of a woman named Ida Cox

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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
Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children

Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio, by Marie Victoire Lemoine

The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio

Marie Victoire Lemoine · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Public domainThe Met
Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs

Page from a photograph album with five mounted photographs

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th 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. 381 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. 3918543 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 04:01 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.