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. 19 shown for “Two Children” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:20 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.
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Woman and Man with Two Children

Woman and Man with Two Children

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet with Loop on the Back, Device of Two Children shown in Opposite Vertical Orientations

Design Amulet with Loop on the Back, Device of Two Children shown in Opposite Vertical Orientations

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–1950 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Two Children

Two Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of sandals

Pair of sandals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabin with Two Children, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Cabin with Two Children

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep

Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of two children

Carte-de-visite of two children

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s-1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cartouches, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Designs for Cartouches

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children, by Frederic, Lord Leighton

Two Children

Frederic, Lord Leighton · ca. 1849

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two children, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Two children

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · 1751–54

Public domainThe Met
The Death of Two Children, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

The Death of Two Children

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing the Children, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ Blessing the Children

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Two Children Embrace, by Stefano della Bella

Two Children Embrace

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Two Children Embrace, by Stefano della Bella

Two Children Embrace

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Woman with two children, by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Woman with two children

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · ca. 1821–33

Public domainThe Met
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. 1180 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. 58421 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:20 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.