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 “Portrait of Asher B. Durand” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:46 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.
Luman Reed, by Asher Brown Durand

Luman Reed

Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Asher B. Durand

Portrait of Asher B. Durand

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis", by Asher Brown Durand

Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"

Asher Brown Durand · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Georgianna Frances Adams, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Georgianna Frances Adams

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Luman Reed, by Charles Cromwell Ingham

Mrs. Luman Reed

Charles Cromwell Ingham · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Mary Louisa Adams, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Mary Louisa Adams

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Asher Brown Durand, by Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894

Asher Brown Durand

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Declaration of Independence, by Asher Brown Durand

Declaration of Independence

Asher Brown Durand · 1820–23

Public domainThe Met
Hacket the Actor, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Hacket the Actor

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1826

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
Luman Reed, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

Luman Reed

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banknote motifs: the number 5 and a portrait of Thayendanegea, by Asher Brown Durand

Banknote motifs: the number 5 and a portrait of Thayendanegea

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1824–37

Public domainThe Met
James Henry Hackett, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

James Henry Hackett

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chief Justice John Marshall, by Asher Brown Durand

Chief Justice John Marshall

Asher Brown Durand · 1833

Public domainThe Met
David Cadwallader Colden, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

David Cadwallader Colden

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1818-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Kent, by Asher Brown Durand

James Kent

Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Philip Syng Physick, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

Philip Syng Physick

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Gaston, by Asher Brown Durand

William Gaston

Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Philip Hone, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

Philip Hone

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S., by Asher Brown Durand

David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.

Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Jennings Brown, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

Jacob Jennings Brown

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stephen Decatur, by Asher Brown Durand

Stephen Decatur

Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Public domainThe Met
William Bainbridge, by Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

William Bainbridge

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1817

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. 283 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3165061 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 2026-09-01 03:46 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.