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 “Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 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.
Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saints, by Charles Mellin, French, 1600 - 1649

Virgin and Child with Saints

Charles Mellin, French, 1600 - 1649 · 1620–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Public domainThe Met
Three Saints, the Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Three Saints, the Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Madonna enthroned with saints, by Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619

Madonna enthroned with saints

Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619 · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin, Child and Saint Anne

The Virgin, Child and Saint Anne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, by Unidentified

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John

Unidentified · 1400-1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Two Representations of Saint Luke Making a Portrait of the Virgin and the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Two Representations of Saint Luke Making a Portrait of the Virgin and the Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosary Terminal Bead with the Virgin and Child, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine

Rosary Terminal Bead with the Virgin and Child, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and a Female Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family and a Female Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

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. 368 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1605676 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 05:17 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.