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 “Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century” — 56 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:02 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.
Christ's Descent into Hell, by Hieronymus Bosch

Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Public domainThe Met
Sagrado Corazon, by Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century

Sagrado Corazon

Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. mid-19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Calvario, by Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century

Calvario

Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arrival in Bethlehem, by Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Los Reyes Magos, by Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century

Los Reyes Magos

Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

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
La Mano Poderosa, by Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century

La Mano Poderosa

Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters

The Last Supper

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
San Rafael y Tobias, by Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century

San Rafael y Tobias

Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1850-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Las Once Mil Virgenes, by Francisco "Pacheco" Claudio, died late 1940s

Las Once Mil Virgenes

Francisco "Pacheco" Claudio, died late 1940s · first half of the 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Shamisen Player, by Kitagawa Utamaro II 喜多川歌麿 二代目 (died 1831?)

Shamisen Player

Kitagawa Utamaro II 喜多川歌麿 二代目 (died 1831?) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Returning home after harvest, by Formerly attributed to Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century)

Returning home after harvest

Formerly attributed to Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century) · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart, by Lockheed Aircraft Company

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart

Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
General Atomics MQ-1L Predator A, by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc

General Atomics MQ-1L Predator A

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc · 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Folk art model of a slave ship on stand, by Unidentified

Folk art model of a slave ship on stand

Unidentified · 1890-1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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. 256 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 32 matched · 32 examined · 21 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 2026-09-08 16:02 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.