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 “Cyclosorus x palmeri (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:16 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 Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Cyclosorus x palmeri (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner

Cyclosorus x palmeri (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50), by Hans Wagner the Elder

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)

Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Public domainThe Met
Cyclosorus exindusiatus (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner

Cyclosorus exindusiatus (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richard Wagner (1805–1864)

Richard Wagner (1805–1864)

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Cyclosorus cataractorum W.H. Wagner & Grether

Cyclosorus cataractorum W.H. Wagner & Grether

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether

Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Dress

Woman's Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether

Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), by Gustave Courbet

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1852–57

Public domainThe Met
Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neckless jar with complex scene, by Paracas artist(s)

Neckless jar with complex scene

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Christella wailele (Flynn) D.D. Palmer

Christella wailele (Flynn) D.D. Palmer

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of earflare frontals, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of earflare frontals

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 188-

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, by Gustave Courbet

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise

Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

Public domainThe Met
Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Asleep during the Tempest, by Eugène Delacroix

Christ Asleep during the Tempest

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Calm Sea, by Gustave Courbet

The Calm Sea

Gustave Courbet · 1869

Public domainThe Met
Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1957

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 660727 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 04:16 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.