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. 22 shown for “Annibale Fontana” — 50 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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 Abduction of Dejanira, by Annibale Fontana

The Abduction of Dejanira

Annibale Fontana · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Luigi Elena and Annibale Elena, by Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864

Luigi Elena and Annibale Elena

Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrifice of Abraham, by Annibale Fontana

Sacrifice of Abraham

Annibale Fontana · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Slave from Hero and Leander in the Galleria Farnese, after Annibale Carraci

Slave from Hero and Leander in the Galleria Farnese, after Annibale Carraci

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando Francesco II d'Avalos of Aquino, Marquis of Pescara (ca. 1530–1571), by Annibale Fontana

Ferdinando Francesco II d'Avalos of Aquino, Marquis of Pescara (ca. 1530–1571)

Annibale Fontana · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of A. N. Carracci, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

Self-Portrait of A. N. Carracci

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Acheloüs, by Annibale Fontana

Hercules and Acheloüs

Annibale Fontana · before 1584

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid, Study after Annibale Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Venus and Cupid, Study after Annibale Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male term figure, by Annibale Fontana

Male term figure

Annibale Fontana · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Holy Family (after Annibale Caracci), by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Holy Family (after Annibale Caracci)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Nessus, by Annibale Fontana

Hercules and Nessus

Annibale Fontana · before 1584

Public domainThe Met
An Old Man's Head, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

An Old Man's Head

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Charles Duron

Ewer

Charles Duron · ca. 1590, with 19th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Monk's Head, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

Monk's Head

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Old Man's Head, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

Old Man's Head

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 3, 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi di Roma' (plate 9), by Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 3, 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi di Roma' (plate 9)

Giovanni Francesco Venturini · 1691 or after

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin, Child and Saint Anne

The Virgin, Child and Saint Anne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Young Man's Head, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

A Young Man's Head

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel with Two Children in Her Arms

Angel with Two Children in Her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1223 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.