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 Lady Boyd” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:35 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.
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Lady Boyd

Portrait of Lady Boyd

Artist not stated in the record · 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
William Boyd, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

William Boyd

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Emma Hamilton, by Angelica Kauffmann

Portrait of Emma Hamilton

Angelica Kauffmann · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Belle Boyd, by Unidentified Artist

Belle Boyd

Unidentified Artist · c. 1868

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
Albumen print of three members of the Boyd family, by Unidentified

Albumen print of three members of the Boyd family

Unidentified · 1890-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady Holding a Flower, by Muhammadi of Herat

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Flower

Muhammadi of Herat · 1565–75

Public domainThe Met
Lady Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, by Franz Von Lenbach, 13 Dec 1836 - 6 May 1904

Lady Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon

Franz Von Lenbach, 13 Dec 1836 - 6 May 1904 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Henri Fantin-Latour

Portrait of a Woman

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Lyndon B. Johnson, by Cecil Stoughton, 18 Jan 1920 - 3 Nov 2008

Lyndon B. Johnson

Cecil Stoughton, 18 Jan 1920 - 3 Nov 2008 · 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Lemon (1747–1823), by George Romney

Lady Lemon (1747–1823)

George Romney · mid- to late 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Fisher Ames, by John Boyd, active 1810 - 1825

Fisher Ames

John Boyd, active 1810 - 1825 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady, by Gerrit Duyckinck

Portrait of a Lady

Gerrit Duyckinck · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Childress Polk, by John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897

Sarah Childress Polk

John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby, by George Romney

Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby

George Romney · 1776–78

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Childress Polk, by Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888

Sarah Childress Polk

Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret, by James McNeill Whistler

Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret

James McNeill Whistler · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Caroline Harrison, by Clark, active 1890's

Caroline Harrison

Clark, active 1890's · c. 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Lady Arabella Stuart (Stewart), by John Whittakers, Sr., active c. 1619 - 1648

Lady Arabella Stuart (Stewart)

John Whittakers, Sr., active c. 1619 - 1648 · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of a young girl

Marble portrait of a young girl

Artist not stated in the record · 81–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Garfield, by Levin Coburn Handy, 10 Aug 1855 - 26 Mar 1932

Lucretia Garfield

Levin Coburn Handy, 10 Aug 1855 - 26 Mar 1932 · c. 1881

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. 739 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2863246 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 03:35 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.