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 “Bit Boss with Adam and Eve” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.
Adam, by Auguste Rodin

Adam

Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Public domainThe Met
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Artist not stated in the record · 1504

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bit Boss with Adam and Eve

Bit Boss with Adam and Eve

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam, by Tullio Lombardo

Adam

Tullio Lombardo · ca. 1490–95

Public domainThe Met
Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eve, by Auguste Rodin

Eve

Auguste Rodin · modeled 1881, cast 1910

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Expulsion of Adam & Eve by James S. Baillie, by Baillie, James S.

Expulsion of Adam & Eve by James S. Baillie

Baillie, James S. · ca 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam and Eve, by Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1729

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam; Eve, by Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini

Adam; Eve

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam and Eve Hide Themselves, from The Story of Adam and Eve, by Heinrich Aldegrever

Adam and Eve Hide Themselves, from The Story of Adam and Eve

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1729

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Display dish with the Temptation of Adam and Eve

Display dish with the Temptation of Adam and Eve

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve, by Heinrich Aldegrever

The Creation of Eve, from The Story of Adam and Eve

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1710

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. 220 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. 1533257 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 2026-08-27 08:33 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.