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. 21 shown for “Castel” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:55 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.
Oboe, by Castel

Oboe

Castel · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 18, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc., by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · 1508

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias

Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa amatoria), by "In Castel Durante" Painter

Dish (coppa amatoria)

"In Castel Durante" Painter · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus monspessulanus L. subsp. monspessulanus

Astragalus monspessulanus L. subsp. monspessulanus

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aurora, goddess of dawn, by "In Castel Durante" Painter

Aurora, goddess of dawn

"In Castel Durante" Painter · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Dorycnium hirsutum (L.) Ser.

Dorycnium hirsutum (L.) Ser.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel (tondo), by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Roundel (tondo)

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Castel Sant'Angelo and Claude's Villa, Rome, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Castel Sant'Angelo and Claude's Villa, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 1868–April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa): The story of Aeneas: Queen Dido of Carthage welcomes Aeneas and his son., by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Dish (coppa): The story of Aeneas: Queen Dido of Carthage welcomes Aeneas and his son.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Peep-Show Picture, View of the Castel de St. Angelo and St. Peter's, Rome

Peep-Show Picture, View of the Castel de St. Angelo and St. Peter's, Rome

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa), by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Dish (coppa)

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Bromus benekenii (Lange) Trimen

Bromus benekenii (Lange) Trimen

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (piatto)

Dish (piatto)

Artist not stated in the record · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Waterhole in the Desert, Utah, by Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926

Waterhole in the Desert, Utah

Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa amatoria)

Dish (coppa amatoria)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/9/83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (piatto)

Dish (piatto)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Dish (coppa)

Dish (coppa)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1535–40

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. 225 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. 200 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:55 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.