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 “Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:01 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.
Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Christ and the adulterous woman

Christ and the adulterous woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael and the Dragon, by Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?)

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Altar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Altar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series

Christ on the Mount of Olives (The Agony in the Garden), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for an Altar

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book-Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty

Book-Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1210–20

Public domainThe Met
Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1509–11

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. 349 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. 7484328 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 13:01 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.