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 boy with a goose” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 03:03 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.
Standing boy with a goose

Standing boy with a goose

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Postcard of a produce vendor

Postcard of a produce vendor

Artist not stated in the record · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing boy, by Andrea Mantegna

Standing boy

Andrea Mantegna · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

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
A Standing Boy, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

A Standing Boy

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Lecce Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boy on a Swing, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Boy on a Swing

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a boy

Terracotta statuette of a boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nudes, by Manni, Italian

Nudes

Manni, Italian · ca. 1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sleeping Boy, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Sleeping Boy

Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1774

Public domainThe Met
Boy with a Moose, by Arthur Henry Howard Heming, American, b. Canada, 1870–1940

Boy with a Moose

Arthur Henry Howard Heming, American, b. Canada, 1870–1940 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches

Portrait of the Boy Eutyches

Artist not stated in the record · 100–150 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sculptured Frieze with Half-Figure of Winged Boy and Griffon, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sculptured Frieze with Half-Figure of Winged Boy and Griffon

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Greyhound, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Boy with a Greyhound

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · possibly 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Fountain in bronze, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Fountain in bronze

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Lute, by Frans Hals

Boy with a Lute

Frans Hals · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Centerpiece

Design of a Centerpiece

Artist not stated in the record · 1827-1835

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. 267 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1873610 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 2026-08-31 03:03 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.