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. 24 shown for “Seated female” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 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.
Seated female

Seated female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5600–5000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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

Seated female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
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

Seated Female Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
Seated female figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated female figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Seated Female Nude

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure, by Maya artist(s)

Seated female figure

Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Seated Female Nude

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure, by Remojadas artist(s)

Seated female figure

Remojadas artist(s) · 600-1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Seated Female Nude

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Female Esoteric Buddhist Deity

Seated Female Esoteric Buddhist Deity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Seated Female Nude

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a seated female figure

Limestone statuette of a seated female figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca.525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Seated Female Nude

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a seated female figure

Terracotta statuette of a seated female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Nude, Study for Portrait of Mrs. Cortland DePeyster Field (nee Hamersley), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Seated Female Nude, Study for Portrait of Mrs. Cortland DePeyster Field (nee Hamersley)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated elder, by Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

Seated elder

Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Jacquemart & Bénard, France

Sidewall

Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1792–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Female Deity Holding a Conch and Branch (?)

Seated Female Deity Holding a Conch and Branch (?)

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Female Torso, by Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925

Seated Female Torso

Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling female figure, by Mexica artist(s)

Kneeling female figure

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 706 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 551645 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 01:48 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.