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 “Study of a Young Woman” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study Head of a Young Woman, by Anthony van Dyck

Study Head of a Young Woman

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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 Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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
Study of a Young Woman, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Young Woman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman, by Mortimer L. Menpes, Australian, active London, England, 1860 – after 1915

Study of a Young Woman

Mortimer L. Menpes, Australian, active London, England, 1860 – after 1915 · 1880

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
Study of a Young Woman, by Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921

Study of a Young Woman

Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman in Profile, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman in Profile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman in Three-quarter Bust-Length, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Study of a Young Woman in Three-quarter Bust-Length

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · ca. 1540–42

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

Study of a Woman's Head

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statue of a young woman

Terracotta statue of a young woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman, by Carlo Maratti, Italian, 1625 - 1713

Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman

Carlo Maratti, Italian, 1625 - 1713 · 1650–1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head for "A Magdalen", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of a Woman's Head for "A Magdalen"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1852

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. 3979 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. 3863750 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.