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. 18 shown for “Bartolomeo Passarotti (Passerotti)” — 46 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:50 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.
An Angel, by Bartolomeo Passarotti (Passerotti)

An Angel

Bartolomeo Passarotti (Passerotti) · 1529–92

Public domainThe Met
Figure with Child, by Passerotti, Italian, 1529 - 1592

Figure with Child

Passerotti, Italian, 1529 - 1592 · 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, by Tiburzio Passarotti (Passerotti)

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Tiburzio Passarotti (Passerotti) · 1577

Public domainThe Met
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, by Unidentified Artist

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Unidentified Artist · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, by Unidentified Artist

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Unidentified Artist · c. 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Prelate, by Lavinia Fontana

Portrait of a Prelate

Lavinia Fontana · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, Sketches after Leonardo Da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo of Works in the Uffizi, Florence, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Madonna and Child, Sketches after Leonardo Da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo of Works in the Uffizi, Florence

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · October 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chief Etchers and Best Italian (Wilton House Album)

Chief Etchers and Best Italian (Wilton House Album)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century binding

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bartolomeo di Miniato (d. 1548)

Portrait of Bartolomeo di Miniato (d. 1548)

Artist not stated in the record · 1730-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati, by Mirabello Cavalori

Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati

Mirabello Cavalori · 1566

Public domainThe Met
Madonna in Glory, Study after Bartolomeo Passeroti Bologna; Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna in Glory, Study after Bartolomeo Passeroti Bologna; Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catananche caerulea L.

Catananche caerulea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Playing With Money, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835

Playing With Money

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman and Two Men with Guns. Costumes of the Kingdom of Naples, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835

A Woman and Two Men with Guns. Costumes of the Kingdom of Naples

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Girls from Frascati Visit a Hermit, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835

Two Girls from Frascati Visit a Hermit

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Group of Three Peasants in a Village, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835

A Group of Three Peasants in a Village

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossidium squamiferum (Viv.) Jur.

Crossidium squamiferum (Viv.) Jur.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1958

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 57 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 13:50 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.