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 “Statue of Tjeteti as a young man” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:28 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.
Statue of Tjeteti as a young man

Statue of Tjeteti as a young man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Les Amans Surpris, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Les Amans Surpris

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche with Vignette, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for a Cartouche with Vignette

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a young woman

Bronze statuette of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Classical Male Head (from a plaster cast), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Study of a Classical Male Head (from a plaster cast)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1881–92

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
A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788)

A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace), by Kephisodotos

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1813

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
Salesman's samples

Salesman's samples

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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
LA BALANCEUSE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA BALANCEUSE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Worship of Amor Vincitor, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Worship of Amor Vincitor

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

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
Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees, by Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees

Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · 1821

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

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
A Female Martyr, Saint John the Baptist, and Two Devouts, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

A Female Martyr, Saint John the Baptist, and Two Devouts

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 1545 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. 3955415 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 03:28 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.