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 “Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:20 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.
Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Landscape, Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Autumn Landscape, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably September 1848 or July 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Woodland Stream, Late Autumn, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Woodland Stream, Late Autumn

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably October 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guqin (古琴 ), by Prince Lu

Guqin (古琴 )

Prince Lu · 1634

Public domainThe Met
Grove of Trees in Autumn, Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Grove of Trees in Autumn, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Trees, Level Distance, by Guo Xi

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Foliage in the Wind, Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Autumn Foliage in the Wind, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, by Jean-François Millet

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Public domainThe Met
Trees along Stream in Fall, by William Trost Richards, born Philadelphia, PA 1833-died Newport, RI 1905

Trees along Stream in Fall

William Trost Richards, born Philadelphia, PA 1833-died Newport, RI 1905 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Wooded Stream Bank, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Wooded Stream Bank

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Autumn in the Hills of Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Autumn in the Hills of Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · possibly 1873-74

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Mountains, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountains, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877 - 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn, by Shikibu Terutada

Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn

Shikibu Terutada · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Trees, Stream, and Possible Haystacks, by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Landscape with Trees, Stream, and Possible Haystacks

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1885–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Foliage, Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Autumn Foliage, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival, by Ike no Taiga

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
L’Automne, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Automne

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

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. 672 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. 3301888 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 23:20 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.