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 “Caleb Gardner Jr.” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 05:34 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.
Easy Chair, by Caleb Gardner Jr.

Easy Chair

Caleb Gardner Jr. · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caleb Gasper, by Charles Loring Elliott

Caleb Gasper

Charles Loring Elliott · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

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
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Gerard David

The Nativity

Gerard David · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait, by George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879

George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait

George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879 · c. 1849-50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Village Marketplace (Le Marché de Village), by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Village Marketplace (Le Marché de Village)

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca.1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple, by Antoine Caron

A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple

Antoine Caron · 1521–99

Public domainThe Met
Caleb Strong, by Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854

Caleb Strong

Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tomb of Agamemnon, by Louis Jean Desprez

The Tomb of Agamemnon

Louis Jean Desprez · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Hans Burgkmair

The Crucifixion

Hans Burgkmair · 1527

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso), by Karel van Mander I

Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso)

Karel van Mander I · ca. 1591

Public domainThe Met
Pilot Edward Gardner's aviation face mask

Pilot Edward Gardner's aviation face mask

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Male Figure, by Filippino Lippi

Standing Male Figure

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Caleb Strong, by John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817

Caleb Strong

John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for an Angel in Glory, by Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo)

Studies for an Angel in Glory

Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) · 1595–1633

Public domainThe Met
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

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. 311 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 166503 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-08 05:34 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.