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 “Toreador suit” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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.
Toreador suit

Toreador suit

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Meeting of Toréadors, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Meeting of Toréadors

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1833-1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toreador suit

Toreador suit

Artist not stated in the record · fourth quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Begonia froebelii A. DC.

Begonia froebelii A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toreador suit, by J. Uriarte

Toreador suit

J. Uriarte · fourth quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phyllactis bracteata (Benth.) Wedd.

Phyllactis bracteata (Benth.) Wedd.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

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

A Matador

Edouard Manet · 1866–67

Public domainThe Met
Bartsia pedicularoides Benth.

Bartsia pedicularoides Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedicularis incurva Benth.

Pedicularis incurva Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Castilleja pumila (Benth.) Wedd.

Castilleja pumila (Benth.) Wedd.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypericum decandrum Turcz.

Hypericum decandrum Turcz.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disterigma empetrifolium (Kunth) Drude

Disterigma empetrifolium (Kunth) Drude

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veronica serpyllifolia L.

Veronica serpyllifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana microphylla Kunth

Valeriana microphylla Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana plantaginea Kunth

Valeriana plantaginea Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana alypifolia Kunth

Valeriana alypifolia Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1943

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. 32 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28129 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 05:16 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.