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 “Baptism of Christ” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:24 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 Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of Christ, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Baptism of Christ

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ

The Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of Christ

Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sébastien Bourdon

The Baptism of Christ

Sébastien Bourdon · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of Christ, by Unidentified (Italian)

Baptism of Christ

Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Nicolás Enríquez

The Baptism of Christ

Nicolás Enríquez · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of Christ, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Baptism of Christ

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

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

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Title page, from "Recueil de Toutes Sortes d'Ornements Propres à Orner Les Eglises Maisons et Jardins"

Title page, from "Recueil de Toutes Sortes d'Ornements Propres à Orner Les Eglises Maisons et Jardins"

Artist not stated in the record · 1652-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with the Baptism of Christ

Pendant with the Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century, and 1920–34

Public domainThe Met
Design for Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Baptism of Christ

Roundel with the Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with the Baptism of Christ

Panel with the Baptism of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Public domainThe Met
1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes

Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes

Artist not stated in the record · 1940

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. 4492 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2863960 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-08 09:24 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.