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. 12 shown for “Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Pier Head, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

The Pier Head

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Unidentified

George Washington

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contemplation, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

Contemplation

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · ca. 1850s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Court of Death, by Sarony, Major and Knapp, active 1856-1867

The Court of Death

Sarony, Major and Knapp, active 1856-1867 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lord Byron, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

Lord Byron

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Roman Daughter, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

The Roman Daughter

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John B. Pendleton, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

John B. Pendleton

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Rosalba Peale, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

Portrait of Rosalba Peale

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia, by Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860

Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia

Rembrandt Peale, born PA 1778-died Philadelphia, PA 1860 · ca. 1806-1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catherine Douglas Dickson, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Catherine Douglas Dickson

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colonel John Cox, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Colonel John Cox

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarah Howard, by William Stroud, born Norristown, PA 1812-died Norristown, PA 1889

Sarah Howard

William Stroud, born Norristown, PA 1812-died Norristown, PA 1889 · 1860/daguerreotype 1845

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 882 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 06:37 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.