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 man in suit, tie, and hat” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 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.
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of man in suit, tie, and hat

Tintype of man in suit, tie, and hat

Artist not stated in the record · after 1860s

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
Tintype portrait of a man wearing a hat and suit

Tintype portrait of a man wearing a hat and suit

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of four unidentified men

Tintype of four unidentified men

Artist not stated in the record · September 21, 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of three men: Paul Smith, Dave Scott, and Arthur Blin

Tintype portrait of three men: Paul Smith, Dave Scott, and Arthur Blin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a man

Unidentified · 1856-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case, by Unidentified

Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case

Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man wearing a suit with a pendant on the lapel

Tintype of a man wearing a suit with a pendant on the lapel

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tintype of two men wearing suits, by Unidentified

Tintype of two men wearing suits

Unidentified · 1855-1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of an unidentified man, by Unidentified

Tintype of an unidentified man

Unidentified · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tintype of a seated man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a seated man

Unidentified · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man in bow tie and waistcoat, by Unidentified

Tintype of a man in bow tie and waistcoat

Unidentified · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man, by Unidentified

Tintype of a man

Unidentified · 1856-1900

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. 104 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. 7484816 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 06:29 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.