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 “Viola macounii Greene” — 48 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 06:04 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.
The Musician, by Bartholomeus van der Helst

The Musician

Bartholomeus van der Helst · 1662

Public domainThe Met
Viola macounii Greene

Viola macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /5/30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Laurent Cars

Plate

Laurent Cars · 1738–49

Public domainThe Met
Viola macounii Greene

Viola macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
Viola macounii Greene

Viola macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · May 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Viola macounii Greene

Viola macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Playing the Violin, Seen from the Back, by Louis de Carmontelle

Woman Playing the Violin, Seen from the Back

Louis de Carmontelle · ca. 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Calystegia macounii (Greene) Brummitt

Calystegia macounii (Greene) Brummitt

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Playing the Violin, Seen from the Front, by Louis de Carmontelle

Woman Playing the Violin, Seen from the Front

Louis de Carmontelle · ca. 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Papaver macounii Greene subsp. macounii

Papaver macounii Greene subsp. macounii

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1892 to 31 Jul 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558)

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Papaver macounii Greene

Papaver macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papaver macounii Greene

Papaver macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papaver macounii Greene

Papaver macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papaver macounii Greene

Papaver macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calystegia macounii (Greene) Brummitt

Calystegia macounii (Greene) Brummitt

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papaver macounii Greene

Papaver macounii Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 105495 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-09 06:04 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.