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 “Band or picture” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:49 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.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Band or picture

Band or picture

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band or picture

Orphrey band or picture

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Print of Cab Calloway conducting his band

Print of Cab Calloway conducting his band

Artist not stated in the record · 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Print of Cab Calloway in checked suit standing in front of microphone

Print of Cab Calloway in checked suit standing in front of microphone

Artist not stated in the record · 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm Band with Man's Head

Arm Band with Man's Head

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band

Orphrey band

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Photograph portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat

Photograph portrait of a woman wearing a picture hat

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car

Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car

Artist not stated in the record · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Poster for Ebony Parade

Poster for Ebony Parade

Artist not stated in the record · 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Regence, by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

Regence

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1851–1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Print of Cab Calloway and his band performing on stage

Print of Cab Calloway and his band performing on stage

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A table, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

A table

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1790

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. 5991 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 257613 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 02:49 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.