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 “Seated Female Figure” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.

Seated female figure in robes, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated female figure in robes

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure in niche, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated female figure in niche

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure with cross and building model, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated female figure with cross and building model

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by Jacquemart & Bénard, France

Sidewall

Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1792–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure with books and putti, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated female figure with books and putti

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (seated female figure), by George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (seated female figure), by George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (seated female figure), by George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Woman

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated figure with tablet, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Seated figure with tablet

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erythean Sibyl from the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, after Michelangelo

Erythean Sibyl from the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, after Michelangelo

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th 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. 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. 582305 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.