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 “Reclining tiger” — 44 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.
Reclining tiger

Reclining tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of Sculpture of Reclining Male Nude, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of Sculpture of Reclining Male Nude

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1880–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchante by the Sea, by Camille Corot

Bacchante by the Sea

Camille Corot · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Tympanum with Reclining Figure, by Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892

Study for a Tympanum with Reclining Figure

Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiger, Tigress and Cub, by Kishi Chikudō

Tiger, Tigress and Cub

Kishi Chikudō · 1892

Public domainThe Met
Study of Reclining Nude Figure, by Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917

Study of Reclining Nude Figure

Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Mu'in Musavvir

Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Mu'in Musavvir · 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Reclining Woman

Reclining Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of the Feet of a Reclining Woman, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of the Feet of a Reclining Woman

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining Woman

Reclining Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Reclining Nude Figure, by Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917

Study of Reclining Nude Figure

Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE LAVEMENT DONNÉ, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE LAVEMENT DONNÉ

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Sketches of Female Nudes, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Two Sketches of Female Nudes

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining Nude, by Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892

Reclining Nude

Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892 · late 19th century

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2246 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:09 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.