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 “Plymon B. Greene, 1800 - 1900” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:21 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.
Sawamura Tosshō II (1838–86), from the series Mirror of Photographs Backstage (Shashin gakuya kagami - Sawamura Tosshō nisei), by Toyohara Kunichika

Sawamura Tosshō II (1838–86), from the series Mirror of Photographs Backstage (Shashin gakuya kagami - Sawamura Tosshō nisei)

Toyohara Kunichika · ca. 1859–61

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Plymon B. Greene, 1800 - 1900

Philip Henry Sheridan

Plymon B. Greene, 1800 - 1900 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of John P. Reynolds (1820-1912), by Greene, P. B (Plymon B.) -1892

Portrait of John P. Reynolds (1820-1912)

Greene, P. B (Plymon B.) -1892 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Hedeoma diffusa Greene

Hedeoma diffusa Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apple Blossoms, by Charles-François Daubigny

Apple Blossoms

Charles-François Daubigny · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Arabis fendleri (S. Watson) Greene

Arabis fendleri (S. Watson) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire, by James Cox

Nécessaire

James Cox · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Erysimum capitatum (Douglas ex Hook.) Greene subsp. capitatum

Erysimum capitatum (Douglas ex Hook.) Greene subsp. capitatum

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Talinum validulum Greene

Talinum validulum Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Dalea urceolata Greene

Dalea urceolata Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunset near Arbonne, by Théodore Rousseau

Sunset near Arbonne

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1860–65

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest at Pontaubert, by Georges Seurat

The Forest at Pontaubert

Georges Seurat · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Cardamine fulcrata Greene

Cardamine fulcrata Greene

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 2000

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. 38 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. 1151856 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 22:21 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.