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. 23 shown for “Bronze shepherd's crook” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:53 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.
Bronze shepherd's crook

Bronze shepherd's crook

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd

Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd's crook

Shepherd's crook

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche with Pastoral Motifs

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd's crook or staff

Shepherd's crook or staff

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
La Pastorale, by Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794

La Pastorale

Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Trophy Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a shepherd

Bronze statuette of a shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

ATTRIBUTS PASTORALS

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shepherd

Bronze shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze shepherd

Bronze shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Couple Embracing in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

A Couple Embracing in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre-Victor Corbin (1815–1850), by Antoine Etex

Pierre-Victor Corbin (1815–1850)

Antoine Etex · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Bed hanging

Bed hanging

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Cassandra, by Max Klinger, German, b. Leipzig, 1857–1920

Cassandra

Max Klinger, German, b. Leipzig, 1857–1920 · (1886-1895/cast 1895-1904)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated satyr with silvered eyes, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated satyr with silvered eyes

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses, by Unidentified Artist

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Osiris

Statuette of Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of Diana, by Alexandre Falguière, French, b. Toulouse, 1831–1900

Head of Diana

Alexandre Falguière, French, b. Toulouse, 1831–1900 · (1882-1890/cast c. 1891-1926)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
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. 92 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 14735 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:53 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.