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. 11 shown for “Straw hat with fabric daisy” — 12 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:44 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Valance in the Style of Louis XVI with Bushes and Garlands of Flowers and Containing Two Decorative Bunches of Leaves, Fruits and Flowers Holding Gardening Utensils and a Straw Hat, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for a Valance in the Style of Louis XVI with Bushes and Garlands of Flowers and Containing Two Decorative Bunches of Leaves, Fruits and Flowers Holding Gardening Utensils and a Straw Hat

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1870–1900 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Costume Design Sketches including a Bouffant Skirt, Hat, and Bodice, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Costume Design Sketches including a Bouffant Skirt, Hat, and Bodice

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
[Three Planters], by Unknown

[Three Planters]

Unknown · after 1845

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Panel with a Large Bundle of Flowers and Leaves and a Hanging Thin Bundle Containing Gardening Tools Inside an Ornamental Frame Decorated with Thin Garlands of Flowers and Leaves, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for a Panel with a Large Bundle of Flowers and Leaves and a Hanging Thin Bundle Containing Gardening Tools Inside an Ornamental Frame Decorated with Thin Garlands of Flowers and Leaves

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1870–1900 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Valance with Bundles and Garlands of Flowers and Leaves Decorated with Gardening Tools upon which Small Birds Rest, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for a Valance with Bundles and Garlands of Flowers and Leaves Decorated with Gardening Tools upon which Small Birds Rest

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1870–1900 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Jean Antoine Laurent

Portrait of a Young Woman

Jean Antoine Laurent · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 04:44 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.