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. 23 shown for “Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915” — 54 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:57 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.
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Frieze

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1896–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Sidewall

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1888–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trellis, by William Morris

Trellis

William Morris · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Ceiling paper

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sulking, by Edgar Degas

Sulking

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Border, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Border

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1890–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878), by Edgar Degas

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)

Edgar Degas · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Frieze

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Ceiling paper

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Ceiling paper

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Frieze

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo)

Portrait of a Young Woman

Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo) · ca. 1490–1500

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Frieze

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, by Aelbert Cuyp

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Sidewall

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Sidewall

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall and frieze, by Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915

Sidewall and frieze

Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1900

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 122 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 10:57 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.