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 “Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:29 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.
Surprised, or Infidelity Found Out, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Surprised, or Infidelity Found Out

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Public domainThe Met
Satyr in the Peasant's House

Satyr in the Peasant's House

Artist not stated in the record · 1741

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
St. Phillip Baptizing the Ethiopian

St. Phillip Baptizing the Ethiopian

Artist not stated in the record · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Sick, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Christ Healing the Sick

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Nymphs Bathing Near a Cave

Nymphs Bathing Near a Cave

Artist not stated in the record · 1741

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis Reading, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Saint Francis Reading

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1747

Public domainThe Met
The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Plant, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Study of a Plant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1712–74

Public domainThe Met
Pont Rustique

Pont Rustique

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Satyr and the Peasant, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

The Satyr and the Peasant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with House Near a Waterfall

Landscape with House Near a Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset, by Johan Christian Dahl

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Christian Wilhelm Hufeland

Christian Wilhelm Hufeland

Artist not stated in the record

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Poa delicatula Wilhelms ex Tzvelev

Poa delicatula Wilhelms ex Tzvelev

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jousting Armor (Rennzeug) and Matching Half-Shaffron

Jousting Armor (Rennzeug) and Matching Half-Shaffron

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90

Public domainThe Met
Avena pubescens Huds.

Avena pubescens Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matchlock Gun

Matchlock Gun

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.

Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Women, by Paul Gauguin

Two Women

Paul Gauguin · 1901 or 1902

Public domainThe Met
Acrospelion rigidum ined.

Acrospelion rigidum ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Siesta, by Paul Gauguin

The Siesta

Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

Public domainThe Met
5m Wilhelm II Speaking at Empire's 25th Anniversary Celebration die proof

5m Wilhelm II Speaking at Empire's 25th Anniversary Celebration die proof

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900

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. 48 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. 35254 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 07:29 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.