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. 16 shown for “Too Corporation, Japanese, founded 1919” — 48 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:45 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.
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
Orange copic sketch marker used by architect Michael Marshall, by Too Corporation, Japanese, founded 1919

Orange copic sketch marker used by architect Michael Marshall

Too Corporation, Japanese, founded 1919 · ca. 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: Dancers, by Edgar Degas

Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Rose mallow, by Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Rose mallow

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · Probably 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Agano ware tea bowl

Agano ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)

Ryogoku Bridge

Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902), by Edgar Degas

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)

Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Public domainThe Met
Writing box

Writing box

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar

Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, January 29

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, January 29

Artist not stated in the record · January 29, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant, by Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696

Public domainThe Met
The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace, by Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590)

The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace

Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590) · 16th 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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 115089 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 15:45 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.