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 “Chasse with Christ in Majesty and the Lamb of God” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:48 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.
Chasse with Christ in Majesty and the Lamb of God

Chasse with Christ in Majesty and the Lamb of God

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Holy Trinity with the Dead Christ in Glory after Palma Giovane; Adoration of the Magi, Study after Lodovico Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Holy Trinity with the Dead Christ in Glory after Palma Giovane; Adoration of the Magi, Study after Lodovico Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lintel with Angels Supporting the Lamb of God

Lintel with Angels Supporting the Lamb of God

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1789–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse with Christ in Majesty and Apostles

Chasse with Christ in Majesty and Apostles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1190–1200

Public domainThe Met
Chinese Gallery As It Was, Plate XV in Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton...Printed by T. Sutherland, Frederic Lewis, Robert Havel Jr., and M. Dubourg. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son, London, England, 1838., by John Nash, 1752 – 1835

Chinese Gallery As It Was, Plate XV in Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton...Printed by T. Sutherland, Frederic Lewis, Robert Havel Jr., and M. Dubourg. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son, London, England, 1838.

John Nash, 1752 – 1835 · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
The Last Judgment, by Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658

The Last Judgment

Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658 · ca. 1650

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. 497 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. 7483970 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 13:48 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.