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 “A Garden with Ruined Archway” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:12 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.
Cuxa Cloister

Cuxa Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–40

Public domainThe Met
A Garden with Ruined Archway

A Garden with Ruined Archway

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
The Statue Before the Ruins, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Statue Before the Ruins

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Pink, by Hans Memling

Young Woman with a Pink

Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for the Poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.’, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Illustration for the Poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.’

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Ruined Renaissance Palace, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of Ruined Renaissance Palace

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Shaded Avenue, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

A Shaded Avenue

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Design for Garden Architecture with Colonna Arms

Design for Garden Architecture with Colonna Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Garden Pavilion in the Corinthian Order, by André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791

Garden Pavilion in the Corinthian Order

André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church, by Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church

Thomas Gainsborough · August 1, 1797

Public domainThe Met
Aechmea bracteata (Sw.) Griseb.

Aechmea bracteata (Sw.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palati maioris (Palatine Palace, Rome), from "Roman Ruins", by Wenceslaus Hollar

Palati maioris (Palatine Palace, Rome), from "Roman Ruins"

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Garden with a Fountain, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Garden with a Fountain

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Ruins with a View of a Garden; Stage design for Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, "Robert le diable", by Carlo Ferrario

Architectural Ruins with a View of a Garden; Stage design for Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, "Robert le diable"

Carlo Ferrario · 1845–1907

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with Archway and Figures, Hebron, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with Archway and Figures, Hebron, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 13, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well, by Johannes van Ceulen

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Public domainThe Met
Frame for a town gate with alternate suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Frame for a town gate with alternate suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle, by Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle

Thomas Gainsborough · 1797

Public domainThe Met
Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869

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. 64 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1893584 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 00:12 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.