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. 14 shown for “Portrait of the Wife of Georg Pencz (Imago Duxore Gregori Peins)” — 42 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:12 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 the Wife of Georg Pencz (Imago Duxore Gregori Peins)

Portrait of the Wife of Georg Pencz (Imago Duxore Gregori Peins)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Wife of Two Crows, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wife of Two Crows

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Georg Pencz (Imago Gregori Peins)

Portrait of Georg Pencz (Imago Gregori Peins)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Kah-béck-a, The Twin, Wife of Bloody Hand, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Kah-béck-a, The Twin, Wife of Bloody Hand

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wa-quóth-e-qua, The Buck's Wife, Wife of the Whale, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wa-quóth-e-qua, The Buck's Wife, Wife of the Whale

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph sold by his brothers, from the Story of Joseph, by Georg Pencz, German, 1500–1550

Joseph sold by his brothers, from the Story of Joseph

Georg Pencz, German, 1500–1550 · 1546

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wife of Kee-o-kúk, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wife of Kee-o-kúk

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wife of The Six, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wife of The Six

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. George Catlin (Clara Bartlett Gregory), by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Mrs. George Catlin (Clara Bartlett Gregory)

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · ca. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mee-chéet-e-neuh, Wounded Bear's Shoulder, Wife of the Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Mee-chéet-e-neuh, Wounded Bear's Shoulder, Wife of the Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Tchón-su-móns-ka, Sand Bar, Wife of the Trader François Chardon

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eeh-nís-kim, Crystal Stone, Wife of the Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Eeh-nís-kim, Crystal Stone, Wife of the Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug That Creeps, Wife of Pigeon's Egg Head, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug That Creeps, Wife of Pigeon's Egg Head

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tís-se-wóo-na-tís, She Who Bathes Her Knees, Wife of the Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Tís-se-wóo-na-tís, She Who Bathes Her Knees, Wife of the Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3073133 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 06:12 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.