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 “Shoppell, active c. 1882” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 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.
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Carlo Crivelli · 1472

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At the Milliner's, by Edgar Degas

At the Milliner's

Edgar Degas · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve, by Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Zhang Feng

Landscapes

Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

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

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Presentation in the Temple, by Alvaro Pirez

The Presentation in the Temple

Alvaro Pirez · ca. 1405–15

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2, by Alexander Gardner

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2

Alexander Gardner · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1, by Alexander Gardner

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

Alexander Gardner · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dr. Brian Walton (born about 1600, died 1661), by John Hoskins

Dr. Brian Walton (born about 1600, died 1661)

John Hoskins · 1657

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

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. 63 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1041851 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 2026-09-02 22:51 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.