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 “Bust of Hercules” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:32 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.
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Porte-Cochère Design, by Laurent Francart, French, active 1681-1690

Porte-Cochère Design

Laurent Francart, French, active 1681-1690 · 1707-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Benjamin Randolph

Side Chair

Benjamin Randolph · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hercules

Bust of Hercules

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

Public domainThe Met
Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hercules and Dejanira, by Giulio Bonasone

Bust of Hercules and Dejanira

Giulio Bonasone · ca. 1531–76

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, by Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587

Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules

Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587 · 1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules

Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hevajra

Bust of Hevajra

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi, Forli., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi, Forli.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of the Virgin

Bust of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

Public domainThe Met
Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountain Valley with a Plateau, by Hercules Segers

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Hercules Segers · ca. 1625–30

Public domainThe Met
Three Deeds of Hercules, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of an Official

Bust of an Official

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Death of Hercules, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Death of Hercules

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust, by C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish

Bust

C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish · ca. 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Hercules Killing Cacus

Hercules Killing Cacus

Artist not stated in the record · 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods

Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1597

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. 2412 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. 2858598 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 2026-08-27 11:32 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.