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 “Crouching Venus” — 51 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 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.
Crouching Venus, by Giambologna

Crouching Venus

Giambologna · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, by Josef Sotira, Austrian, active in Austria and Russia, 1830 – 1840

The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna

Josef Sotira, Austrian, active in Austria and Russia, 1830 – 1840 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching Venus, by Giambologna

Crouching Venus

Giambologna · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching Venus

Crouching Venus

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus Comb Murex, Venus comb shell

Venus Comb Murex, Venus comb shell

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching Venus

Crouching Venus

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus Crouching, by Albrecht Altdorfer

Venus Crouching

Albrecht Altdorfer

Public domainThe Met
Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (study of Venus), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (study of Venus)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus crouching by a plinth on top of which stands Cupid, by Marcantonio Raimondi

Venus crouching by a plinth on top of which stands Cupid

Marcantonio Raimondi · ca. 1510–27

Public domainThe Met
Fountain; elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fountain; elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Venus Complains to Jupiter, by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Venus Complains to Jupiter

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · mid-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center, by Theodor de Bry

Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Venus, from The Seven Planets, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Venus, from The Seven Planets

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermaphrodite, by Giovanni Francesco Susini

Hermaphrodite

Giovanni Francesco Susini · 1639

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Venus and Cupid

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return from the Hunt, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Gnidia Venus, Gnidia Venus, Gnidia Venus

Gnidia Venus, Gnidia Venus, Gnidia Venus

Artist not stated in the record · 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub, by Edgar Degas

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub

Edgar Degas · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Crouching Female Nude, by James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903

Crouching Female Nude

James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wallpaper Design: Reconciliation of Venus and Psyche, by Merry-Joseph Blondel, French, 1781–1853; active Paris, France 1802–1851

Wallpaper Design: Reconciliation of Venus and Psyche

Merry-Joseph Blondel, French, 1781–1853; active Paris, France 1802–1851 · 1815

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1944 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 07:07 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.