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 “Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King” — 63 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:40 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.
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Enthroned Figure and Horsemen

Bowl with Enthroned Figure and Horsemen

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1890

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. 23 matched · 23 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. 7467638 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 18:40 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.