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. 23 shown for “Christian Jorhan the Elder” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:52 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.
Angel, by Christian Jorhan the Elder

Angel

Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Christian Jorhan the Elder

Angel

Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
COUPE DE L’HERMITAGE AVEC UNE PARTIE DE L’ÉLÉVATION DES BATIMENTS DU FOND DU BOSQUET RUSTIQUE, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

COUPE DE L’HERMITAGE AVEC UNE PARTIE DE L’ÉLÉVATION DES BATIMENTS DU FOND DU BOSQUET RUSTIQUE

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder, by Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676

Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder

Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
The Elder's Daughter, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Elder's Daughter

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet of Flowers in a Roemer, by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Bouquet of Flowers in a Roemer

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Suzanna and the Elders

Suzanna and the Elders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Judgment of Paris, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Entombment of Christ, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656

Entombment of Christ

Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1640–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas, by Jean Cousin the Elder

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1543

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Sambucus Canadensis. Common, Sweet, or American Elder, by Edwin Hale Lincoln, born Westminster, MA 1848-died Pittsfield, MA 1938

Sambucus Canadensis. Common, Sweet, or American Elder

Edwin Hale Lincoln, born Westminster, MA 1848-died Pittsfield, MA 1938 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia, by Robert Peake the Elder

Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia

Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Maurice, by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop

Saint Maurice

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop · ca. 1520–25

Public domainThe Met
Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing the Children, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ Blessing the Children

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Susanna and the Elders

Susanna and the Elders

Artist not stated in the record · 1555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

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. 84 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1195488 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 20:52 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.