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 “Standing Lady” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 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.
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Standing Lady

Standing Lady

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing lady attendant

Standing lady attendant

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Turkish Lady

Standing Turkish Lady

Artist not stated in the record · after 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Basin, by Unknown, Chinese

Basin

Unknown, Chinese · 1685–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Noble and Lady, by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Noble and Lady

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Ecouen Facades Dans la Court

Ecouen Facades Dans la Court

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Costume Studies: Three Standing Figures

Costume Studies: Three Standing Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Picnic Excursion, by Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science and Art

The Picnic Excursion

Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science and Art · August 14, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing court lady

Standing court lady

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
You Don't Like My Love Stories, Dear, so I Shall Not Write Any More, by Howard Chandler Christy, American, 1872 - 1952

You Don't Like My Love Stories, Dear, so I Shall Not Write Any More

Howard Chandler Christy, American, 1872 - 1952 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a standing lady

Figure of a standing lady

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bird Hunt, by Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738

Bird Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Standing Lady

Figure of a Standing Lady

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Theater Interior, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Theater Interior

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Taweret

Statuette of Taweret

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miss Clothier, by Unidentified

Miss Clothier

Unidentified · ca. 1810-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a standing lady

Figure of a standing lady

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
My Friend and I, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

My Friend and I

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

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. 294 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. 21670 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 17:23 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.