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 “Country scenes” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 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.
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Country scenes

Country scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Country scenes

Country scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes

Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Country Scene, by Jasper Francis Cropsey, American, 1823–1900

Country Scene

Jasper Francis Cropsey, American, 1823–1900 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick with Enthronement Scene

Candlestick with Enthronement Scene

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Offering Table of Tjaenhesret, priest of Thoth, son of Iaa

Offering Table of Tjaenhesret, priest of Thoth, son of Iaa

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pocket book

Pocket book

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Dites Merci, by Meillier et Cie

Dites Merci

Meillier et Cie · ca. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm on land, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm on land

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Les Monuments du Midi

Les Monuments du Midi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm at sea, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm at sea

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Textile

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding Cup in case, by Robert Hennell III

Wedding Cup in case

Robert Hennell III · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Villa Loredan, Paese, by Francesco Guardi

The Villa Loredan, Paese

Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850

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

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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. 814 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 6521222 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-03 09:44 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.