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. 13 shown for “Amazilia candida candida” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:54 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.
Marriage of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, by Giovanni Filangieri Candida

Marriage of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy

Giovanni Filangieri Candida · ca. 1477

Public domainThe Met
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Giuliano and Clemente della Rovere, by Giovanni Filangieri Candida

Giuliano and Clemente della Rovere

Giovanni Filangieri Candida · ca. 1494

Public domainThe Met
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Bohier, général des finances 1496, d. 1524 (o.s.), by Giovanni Filangieri Candida

Thomas Bohier, général des finances 1496, d. 1524 (o.s.)

Giovanni Filangieri Candida · 1503

Public domainThe Met
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, 1477, by Giovanni Filangieri Candida

Marriage of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, 1477

Giovanni Filangieri Candida · ca. 1477

Public domainThe Met
Ste. Candide, vierge et martyre (St. Candida, Virgin and Martyr), September 20th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), by Jacques Callot

Ste. Candide, vierge et martyre (St. Candida, Virgin and Martyr), September 20th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

Jacques Callot · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Saint Dominic, by Johann Sadeler I

Saint Dominic

Johann Sadeler I · ca. 1582

Public domainThe Met
Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amazilia candida candida

Amazilia candida candida

Artist not stated in the record

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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 17 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. 3565 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 11:54 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.