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 “Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:34 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.
Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers

Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by D.W. Kellogg and Company, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India

Artist not stated in the record · mid-500s

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam, by Domenico Fetti

The Parable of the Mote and the Beam

Domenico Fetti · ca. 1619

Public domainThe Met
Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by D.W. Kellogg and Company, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Annunciation

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

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. 173 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. 3226661 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-01 09:34 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.