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. 14 shown for “Andreas Jais” — 47 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 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.
Bass Viola da Gamba, by Andreas Jais

Bass Viola da Gamba

Andreas Jais · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of the Caligrapher Andreas Gulden

Portrait of the Caligrapher Andreas Gulden

Artist not stated in the record · 1653

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest, by Théodore Rousseau

The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest

Théodore Rousseau · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Sobralia andreae

Sobralia andreae

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Sobralia andreae

Sobralia andreae

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study"), by Gustave Courbet

A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study")

Gustave Courbet · probably 1862

Public domainThe Met
Andropogon schlumbergeri var. andreae Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon schlumbergeri var. andreae Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria, by Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1488-1560

Design for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria

Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1488-1560 · mid-1530s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum", by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1685–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1687–1700

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 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. 14675 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:26 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.