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. 16 shown for “Chigi Group” — 57 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 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.
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Chigi Group

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Chigi Group · ca. 625 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for the Chigi Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, by Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520

Plan and Elevation for the Chigi Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520 · ca. 1652–1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Facade of the Palace of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, Rome

Facade of the Palace of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Public domainThe Met
CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1626–1629

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Carlo Maratti

The Flight into Egypt

Carlo Maratti · ca. 1664

Public domainThe Met
Potamogeton gramineus L.

Potamogeton gramineus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Pope Clement X (1590–1676), by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · late 1640s

Public domainThe Met
The Lamentation, by Ludovico Carracci

The Lamentation

Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Public domainThe Met
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 124404 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

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