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. 21 shown for “Barthelemy d'Eyck” — 49 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:43 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 Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Caulerpa brachypus Harv.

Caulerpa brachypus Harv.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity, by Barthelemy d'Eyck

Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity

Barthelemy d'Eyck · 1450s

Public domainThe Met
Ramalina montagnei De Not.

Ramalina montagnei De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity, by Barthelemy d'Eyck

Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity

Barthelemy d'Eyck · 1450s

Public domainThe Met
Rhipocephalus phoenix (J. Ellis & Sol.) Kütz.

Rhipocephalus phoenix (J. Ellis & Sol.) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin Announcing to His Parents That He Will Become a Christian

Saint Martin Announcing to His Parents That He Will Become a Christian

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
Penicillus dumetosus (J.V.Lamouroux) Blainville

Penicillus dumetosus (J.V.Lamouroux) Blainville

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
Penicillus pyriformis A. Gepp & E. Gepp

Penicillus pyriformis A. Gepp & E. Gepp

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin and Saint Hilary

Saint Martin and Saint Hilary

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
Argythamnia candicans Sw.

Argythamnia candicans Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life

Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
Penicillus sp.

Penicillus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Udotea cyathiformis Decne.

Udotea cyathiformis Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

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

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Halimeda incrassata (J. Ellis) J.V.Lamouroux

Halimeda incrassata (J. Ellis) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Udotea dixonii D.S. Littler & Littler

Udotea dixonii D.S. Littler & Littler

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caulerpa mexicana Sond. ex Kütz.

Caulerpa mexicana Sond. ex Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caulerpa ashmeadii Harv.

Caulerpa ashmeadii Harv.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1987

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 671 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 10:43 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.