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 “Sketch with Kali and a Young Boy” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:07 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.
Sketch with Kali and a Young Boy

Sketch with Kali and a Young Boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Boy's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Young Boy's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kali

Kali

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Boy

Study of a Young Boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kali and Jagaddhatri, by Sri Hemchandra Das

Kali and Jagaddhatri

Sri Hemchandra Das · ca. 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Tree and Roots, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Tree and Roots, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Theodore Cole Leaning on a Sack, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Theodore Cole Leaning on a Sack, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844 and June 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 22, 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze portrait bust of a young boy

Bronze portrait bust of a young boy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Justiniano de la Rosa of Barranquilla, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Justiniano de la Rosa of Barranquilla, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 7, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Woman of Bethlehem, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Woman of Bethlehem

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 12, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Five Sketches of Young Boys, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Five Sketches of Young Boys

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boy playing a lute, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Boy playing a lute

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Young Boy, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Head of a Young Boy

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
The Invention of Distillation, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Invention of Distillation

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · before 1590

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. 981 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. 2828978 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 07:07 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.