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 “Catholic Church” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:51 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.
L'office de l'Église en françois contenant les offices pour toute l'année, plusieurs prières tirées de l'écriture-sainte & des saints pères, les hymnes en vers françois, avec une instruction pour les fidèles, by Catholic Church

L'office de l'Église en françois contenant les offices pour toute l'année, plusieurs prières tirées de l'écriture-sainte & des saints pères, les hymnes en vers françois, avec une instruction pour les fidèles

Catholic Church · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Livery trimmings

Livery trimmings

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Loffice de Noël, 1768, by Catholic Church

Loffice de Noël, 1768

Catholic Church · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Croton cascarilla (L.) L.

Croton cascarilla (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Ricinus communis L.

Ricinus communis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uffizio della Settimana Santa : colle rubriche volgari, argomenti de' Salmi, spiegazione delle cerimonie e misterj, con osservazioni, e riflessioni divote dell'abate Alessandro Mazzinelli, by Alessandro Mazzinelli

Uffizio della Settimana Santa : colle rubriche volgari, argomenti de' Salmi, spiegazione delle cerimonie e misterj, con osservazioni, e riflessioni divote dell'abate Alessandro Mazzinelli

Alessandro Mazzinelli · 1794

Public domainThe Met
Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustration of Foreign Residences and the Catholic Church in Yokohama (Yokohama shōkan tenshudō no zu), by Utagawa Hiroshige III

Illustration of Foreign Residences and the Catholic Church in Yokohama (Yokohama shōkan tenshudō no zu)

Utagawa Hiroshige III · 10th month, 1870

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg, by Claude Guy Hallé

The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg

Claude Guy Hallé · ca. 1681

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cog Rattle

Cog Rattle

Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Fixed kneeling altar from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bishop Saint, by Pierre Legros II

Bishop Saint

Pierre Legros II · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Casuarina equisetifolia L.

Casuarina equisetifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of the Word of God, from "Triumph of the Catholic Church" (oil sketch for a painting of the same subject), by Otto van Veen

The Triumph of the Word of God, from "Triumph of the Catholic Church" (oil sketch for a painting of the same subject)

Otto van Veen · ca.1615–20

Public domainThe Met
Xanthium strumarium L.

Xanthium strumarium L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table, by Franz Adam Weber

Console table

Franz Adam Weber · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Psidium guineense Sw.

Psidium guineense Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia willdenowii Nied.

Eugenia willdenowii Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim, by Diego de Pesquera

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim

Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus urinaria L.

Phyllanthus urinaria L.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 2010

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. 216 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 13204 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 08:51 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.