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 “Bacchus” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.
Bacchus, by Domenico Poggini

Bacchus

Domenico Poggini · 1554

Public domainThe Met
Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus

Bacchus

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, by Hendrick Goltzius

Bacchus

Hendrick Goltzius · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Figural Group Depicting the Triumph of Bacchus

Figural Group Depicting the Triumph of Bacchus

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, by William Brown

Bacchus

William Brown · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, by Meissen Manufactory

Bacchus

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Birth of Bacchus; Banquet of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Birth of Bacchus; Banquet of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, by Meissen Manufactory

Bacchus

Meissen Manufactory · possibly ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and Ariadne, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triumph of Bacchus, by Luigi Frullini

Triumph of Bacchus

Luigi Frullini · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and a Panther

Bacchus and a Panther

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Education of the Infant Bacchus, by Niccolò Amastini

Education of the Infant Bacchus

Niccolò Amastini · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Punch pot with Bacchus

Punch pot with Bacchus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus Sleeping (after Poussin), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Bacchus Sleeping (after Poussin)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1886–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cameo with the Triumph of Bacchus

Cameo with the Triumph of Bacchus

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

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. 300 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 671 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 15:54 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.