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. 12 shown for “Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:29 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61), by Jean Varin

Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61)

Jean Varin · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), by Jean Varin

Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642)

Jean Varin · 1630

Public domainThe Met
Domenico Grimani (1461–1523), by Unknown

Domenico Grimani (1461–1523)

Unknown · 1493–1523

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1: Ferdinand as Mars, standing on a pedestal; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Pieter de Jode II

Plate 1: Ferdinand as Mars, standing on a pedestal; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 14: Ferdinand on a voyage with the Argonauts; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacobus van Schoor

Plate 14: Ferdinand on a voyage with the Argonauts; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacobus van Schoor · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Anton van der Does

Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Anton van der Does · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 21: Emperor Charles V being offered the keys of Saxony and Hesse; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Anton van der Does

Plate 21: Emperor Charles V being offered the keys of Saxony and Hesse; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Anton van der Does · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 35: Philip of Spain as Neptune, riding in a chariot drawn by two sea horses; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Pieter de Jode II

Plate 35: Philip of Spain as Neptune, riding in a chariot drawn by two sea horses; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 31: The triumph of Scipio Africanus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

Plate 31: The triumph of Scipio Africanus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 28: Mars on horseback at center, and Romulus and Remus with the wolf at lower left; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

Plate 28: Mars on horseback at center, and Romulus and Remus with the wolf at lower left; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Plate 3: Portrait of Ferdinand Cardinal Infante of Spain, in military armor; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacobus van Schoor

Plate 3: Portrait of Ferdinand Cardinal Infante of Spain, in military armor; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacobus van Schoor · 1636

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. 75 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:29 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.