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 “Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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.
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Bedroom Alcoves: Three Elevations and One Plan, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves: Three Elevations and One Plan

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom

Design for a Bedroom

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Claude's Villa and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Claude's Villa and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 1868 - April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panelling in Hotel Roquelaur,l Bedroom and Wall of Adjoining Room, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Panelling in Hotel Roquelaur,l Bedroom and Wall of Adjoining Room

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bedroom Furniture

Bedroom Furniture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 18, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Bedroom Alcoves, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

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

Design for Decorations for a Bedroom

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Venereal Disease, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Venereal Disease

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 or before

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. 26 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. 3421801 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 18:20 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.