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 Hans Makart” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 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 Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Hans Makart

Portrait of Hans Makart

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

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
The Entrance of Charles V Into Antwerp

The Entrance of Charles V Into Antwerp

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Maximilian I, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Portrait of Maximilian I

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1518–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait / Verso: Sketch, by Hans Richter, American, b. Berlin, Germany, 1888–1976

Self-Portrait / Verso: Sketch

Hans Richter, American, b. Berlin, Germany, 1888–1976 · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Henry Ford, by Hans Wollner, 1899 - 1946

Henry Ford

Hans Wollner, 1899 - 1946 · 1937 (cast 1963)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of George Hans Boehmer (1842-1895), by Davis Photographic Studio

Portrait of George Hans Boehmer (1842-1895)

Davis Photographic Studio · 1887

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

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of an Old Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of an Old Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
TISH-CO-HAN. A DELAWARE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

TISH-CO-HAN. A DELAWARE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
James John Davis, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

James John Davis

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 80–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tish-co-han, by Unidentified Artist

Tish-co-han

Unidentified Artist · 1837

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
Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905

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. 604 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. 2870821 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 09:25 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.