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 “Carlo Zucchi the Younger” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:57 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.
Design for an Opera Set, a Congress of Cupids, by Carlo Zucchi the Younger

Design for an Opera Set, a Congress of Cupids

Carlo Zucchi the Younger · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Carlo Zucchi the Younger

Design for a Stage Set

Carlo Zucchi the Younger · ca. 1748–95

Public domainThe Met
Section of the House and Proscenium, by Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690

Section of the House and Proscenium

Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Exterior, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Exterior, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dormition of the Virgin, by Carlo Saraceni

The Dormition of the Virgin

Carlo Saraceni · ca. 1612

Public domainThe Met
Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Little Crow the Younger, by Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886

Little Crow the Younger

Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger, by Unidentified (British)

Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger

Unidentified (British) · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Album of Architectural Prints, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Album of Architectural Prints

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monsignor Giuseppe Spina (1756–1828), by Angelica Kauffmann

Monsignor Giuseppe Spina (1756–1828)

Angelica Kauffmann · 1798

Public domainThe Met
Young Ma Has Kah, by Unidentified Artist

Young Ma Has Kah

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Assumption of the Virgin (after Carlo Maratta?), by Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Assumption of the Virgin (after Carlo Maratta?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Capitals, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Designs for Capitals

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1731–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Les Plans de Falquensloust, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Les Plans de Falquensloust

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, by Antonio Rossellino

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Fontaine executé dans une Niche de Charmille, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Fontaine executé dans une Niche de Charmille

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1208223 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 13:57 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.