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 “Bernardo Bellotto” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:04 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.
Pirna: The Obertor from the South, by Bernardo Bellotto

Pirna: The Obertor from the South

Bernardo Bellotto · mid-1750s

Public domainThe Met
Phytolacca sp.

Phytolacca sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Village on the Brenta, by Bernardo Bellotto

A Village on the Brenta

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Lycianthes sp.

Lycianthes sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Venetian Villa, by Bernardo Bellotto

A Venetian Villa

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1741–80

Public domainThe Met
Faramea sp.

Faramea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Imaginary View of Padua, by Bernardo Bellotto

Imaginary View of Padua

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus dumosus Macfad.

Phaseolus dumosus Macfad.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Dolo, by Bernardo Bellotto

View of Dolo

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Lindernia dubia (L.) Pennell

Lindernia dubia (L.) Pennell

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1935 to 12 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prato della Valle at Padua, by Bernardo Bellotto

The Prato della Valle at Padua

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Lindernia dubia (L.) Pennell

Lindernia dubia (L.) Pennell

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1935 to 12 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tower of Marghera, by Bernardo Bellotto

The Tower of Marghera

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell

Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1935 to 12 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Santa Giustina and the Prato della Valle at Padua, by Bernardo Bellotto

Santa Giustina and the Prato della Valle at Padua

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea racemosa (L. f.) Spreng.

Cuphea racemosa (L. f.) Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaprio d'Adda, by Bernardo Bellotto

Vaprio d'Adda

Bernardo Bellotto · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Pilea pennellii Killip

Pilea pennellii Killip

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, with the Dogana da Mar and Santa Maria della Salute on the Left, by Bernardo Bellotto

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, with the Dogana da Mar and Santa Maria della Salute on the Left

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1736–37

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia leucantha Brandegee

Ruellia leucantha Brandegee

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, from the North, by Bernardo Bellotto

The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, from the North

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1736–37

Public domainThe Met
Solanum solum J.F. Macbr.

Solanum solum J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Grand Canal, with the Fabbriche Nuove on the Left and Campanile of Santi Apostoli on the Right, by Bernardo Bellotto

The Grand Canal, with the Fabbriche Nuove on the Left and Campanile of Santi Apostoli on the Right

Bernardo Bellotto · ca. 1736–37

Public domainThe Met
Besleria solanoides Kunth var. solanoides

Besleria solanoides Kunth var. solanoides

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1981

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. 26 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. 1674 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-07 11:04 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.