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. 12 shown for “Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:00 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael

Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Cupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for an Overdoor

Project for an Overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zeus and Ganymede, by Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812

Zeus and Ganymede

Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid

Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Venus and Amor, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Venus and Amor

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Candelabra Designs, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Candelabra Designs

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna...., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 586612 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 19:00 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.