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 “Cupid about to fire an arrow” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 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.
Cupid about to fire an arrow

Cupid about to fire an arrow

Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

Public domainThe Met
America, by Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834

America

Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid, by Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533

Venus and Cupid

Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1528

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Venus and Cupid

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1525–27

Public domainThe Met
Thetis and Cupid Riding Fish, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Thetis and Cupid Riding Fish

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller), by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

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
Study for "The Education of Cupid", by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study for "The Education of Cupid"

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Jacquemart & Bénard, France

Frieze

Jacquemart & Bénard, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fire screen, by Ferdinand Hundt

Fire screen

Ferdinand Hundt · ca. 1736–40

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Cupid

Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel), by Gian Marco Cavalli

Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel)

Gian Marco Cavalli · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790-1795

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. 638 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. 1029092 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-28 01:22 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.