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 “Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:09 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.
Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata

Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–1200

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo

The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Baldacchino with Papal Ar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Baldacchino with Papal Ar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony Abbot, by Nikolaus von Hagenau

Saint Anthony Abbot

Nikolaus von Hagenau · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Altar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Altar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), by Jean-Baptiste Stouf

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)

Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Public domainThe Met
Altar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Altar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paul Preaching at Athens

Saint Paul Preaching at Athens

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1517

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of an Apostle

Column Statue of an Apostle

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Sebastian, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Saint Sebastian

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew, by Antonio Susini

Saint Matthew

Antonio Susini · 1596

Public domainThe Met
St. Sebastian at the Column

St. Sebastian at the Column

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Saint Sebastian, Detail of Polyptich with the Virgin Enthroned, Study after Dosso Dossi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Saint Sebastian, Detail of Polyptich with the Virgin Enthroned, Study after Dosso Dossi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bernardino of Siena, by Fulvio Signorini

Saint Bernardino of Siena

Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidery or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for an Embroidery or Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Siena, by Fulvio Signorini

Saint Catherine of Siena

Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Prospectus Templi S. Iohannis Romae (View of Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome)

Prospectus Templi S. Iohannis Romae (View of Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Bologna Views, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Two Bologna Views

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, Rome, by Szymon Czechowicz, Polish, 1689 - 1775

Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, Rome

Szymon Czechowicz, Polish, 1689 - 1775 · 1724–1725

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. 42 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. 3001405 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 07:09 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.