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. 18 shown for “Robert Street, 17 Jan 1796 - 1865” — 58 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:19 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 Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Elisha Tyson, by Robert Street, 17 Jan 1796 - 1865

Elisha Tyson

Robert Street, 17 Jan 1796 - 1865 · c. 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Sommer Sims, by Robert Street, born Germantown, PA 1796-died Philadelphia, PA 1865

Sarah Sommer Sims

Robert Street, born Germantown, PA 1796-died Philadelphia, PA 1865 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Robert Richford Roberts, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Robert Richford Roberts

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bathing Pool, by Hubert Robert

The Bathing Pool

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
George Washington to Anne Louise DuBarry franked "President U.S." folded letter

George Washington to Anne Louise DuBarry franked "President U.S." folded letter

Artist not stated in the record · August 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Kermit, by James Earl, born Paxton, MA 1761-died Charleston, SC 1796

Portrait of Mrs. Robert Kermit

James Earl, born Paxton, MA 1761-died Charleston, SC 1796 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana boliviana Britton

Valeriana boliviana Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1902

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
A Village Street: Dardagny, by Camille Corot

A Village Street: Dardagny

Camille Corot · 1852, 1857, or 1863

Public domainThe Met
Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro, by James Gillray

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

James Gillray · May 5, 1796

Public domainThe Met
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, by John Hoppner

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer

John Hoppner

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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. 2049015 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 16:19 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.