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. 15 shown for “Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor” — 52 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:20 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.
Cincinnatus at the Plough, by Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)

Cincinnatus at the Plough

Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor

Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Christian Abraham Fleetwood, by Merritt & VanWagner, active 1880s and 1890s

Christian Abraham Fleetwood

Merritt & VanWagner, active 1880s and 1890s · c. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait medal of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (obverse); A Pelican (reverse), by Pisanello (Antonio Pisano)

Portrait medal of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (obverse); A Pelican (reverse)

Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) · model 1446–47 (possibly cast 15th or 16th century)

Public domainThe Met
Monument in honor of the soldiers, sailors and marines, by Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953

Monument in honor of the soldiers, sailors and marines

Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953 · 1910–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Monument in honor of the soldiers, sailors, and marines, by Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953

Monument in honor of the soldiers, sailors, and marines

Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953 · 1910–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Portrait medal of Cecilia Gonzaga (obverse); Innocence and a Unicorn in a Moonlit Landscape (reverse), by Pisanello (Antonio Pisano)

Portrait medal of Cecilia Gonzaga (obverse); Innocence and a Unicorn in a Moonlit Landscape (reverse)

Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) · model 1447 (old aftercast)

Public domainThe Met
Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie), by Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant)

Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie)

Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Saint Tarcisius, by Alexandre Falguière

Saint Tarcisius

Alexandre Falguière · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
The Japanese Robe, by Alfred Stevens

The Japanese Robe

Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Public domainThe Met
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2864718 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 01:20 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.