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 Surround with Pensive Woman” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:50 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 Surround with Pensive Woman

Column Surround with Pensive Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Mannerist Group

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Mannerist Group · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Memorial to the Napoleonic Naval Heroes Admiral Federico Carlos de Gravina and Rear-Admiral Don Antonio Escaño, Defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Memorial to the Napoleonic Naval Heroes Admiral Federico Carlos de Gravina and Rear-Admiral Don Antonio Escaño, Defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · after 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stamnos (jar), by Barclay Painter

Terracotta stamnos (jar)

Barclay Painter · ca. 450–440 BCE

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

Drawing

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer in the Mosque, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque

Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca), by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cellier Altarpiece, by Jean Bellegambe

The Cellier Altarpiece

Jean Bellegambe · 1511–12

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Clock

Clock

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ in the Wilderness, by Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino)

Christ in the Wilderness

Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Title Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Central Park, New York, Feeding the Swans, by George Schlegel, New York

Central Park, New York, Feeding the Swans

George Schlegel, New York · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Radiator, by Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842

Radiator

Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842 · mid-19th century

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 275784 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 23:50 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.