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 “Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:57 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.
Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation

Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhidharma in meditation

Bodhidharma in meditation

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Panel, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Design for a Painted Panel

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Seated in Meditation

Buddha Seated in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma, by Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Bodhidharma

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jain Svetambara Tirthankara in Meditation

Jain Svetambara Tirthankara in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像, by Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249)

Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像

Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhidharma, by Kano Takanobu

Bodhidharma

Kano Takanobu · ca. 1610–1618

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"

The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Meditation, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Meditation

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Guanyin, white robed, seated upon an over-hanging rock

Guanyin, white robed, seated upon an over-hanging rock

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Meditation, by William de Leftwich Dodge, born Liberty, VA 1867-died New York City 1935

Meditation

William de Leftwich Dodge, born Liberty, VA 1867-died New York City 1935 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Amitayus

Seated Amitayus

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed

Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Democritus in Meditation

Democritus in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhidharma in Red Robes, by Hasegawa Hakujun

Bodhidharma in Red Robes

Hasegawa Hakujun · 1671

Public domainThe Met
5005 Profound Meditation

5005 Profound Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Christ, by Giovanni Baronzio

Scenes from the Life of Christ

Giovanni Baronzio · mid-1340s

Public domainThe Met
A Man in Meditation

A Man in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

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. 113 matched · 24 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. 7461089 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 18:57 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.