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 “Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 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.
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress

Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a woman, by John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890

Tintype of a woman

John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890 · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840)

Jean Antoine Houdon · first modeled ca. 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of an woman wearing a hat, by Unidentified

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat

Unidentified · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze patera handle in the form of a young woman

Bronze patera handle in the form of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a seated unidentified girl

Tintype of a seated unidentified girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a seated young woman

Tintype of a seated young woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Two Girls, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Two Girls

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a young girl in a paper radio frame

Tintype of a young girl in a paper radio frame

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

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

Terracotta statuette of a standing girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Girl with a Pail, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Girl with a Pail

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girl in a Straw Bonnet, by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Girl in a Straw Bonnet

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1868–70

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl

Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children

Carte-de-visite of a young woman and two children

Artist not stated in the record · 1864 - 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a unidentified young girl in a mailing card

Tintype of a unidentified young girl in a mailing card

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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. 361 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484469 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 06:30 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.