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 “Berzelia stokoei (E. Phillips) A.V. Hall” — 56 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:06 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 Grave, A Poem, by William Blake

The Grave, A Poem

William Blake · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Berzelia stokoei (E. Phillips) A.V. Hall

Berzelia stokoei (E. Phillips) A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Audouinia laxa (Thunb.) A.V. Hall

Audouinia laxa (Thunb.) A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Oct 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Staavia staavioides (Sond.) A.V. Hall

Staavia staavioides (Sond.) A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Brunia latebracteata A.V. Hall

Brunia latebracteata A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Staberoha stokoei Pillans

Staberoha stokoei Pillans

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Elegia stokoei Pillans

Elegia stokoei Pillans

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles, by Lykaon Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles

Lykaon Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elegia stokoei Pillans

Elegia stokoei Pillans

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Elegia stokoei Pillans

Elegia stokoei Pillans

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Audouinia laxa (Thunb.) A.V. Hall

Audouinia laxa (Thunb.) A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Berzelia intermedia Schltdl.

Berzelia intermedia Schltdl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Audouinia esterhuyseniae (Powrie) A.V. Hall

Audouinia esterhuyseniae (Powrie) A.V. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1973

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 1135186 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:06 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.