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 “Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:04 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flora, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Flora

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr. x C. hawaiensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra hawaiensis C.B. Clarke x C. menziesii Hook. & Arn.

Cyrtandra hawaiensis C.B. Clarke x C. menziesii Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra hawaiensis C.B. Clarke x C. menziesii Hook. & Arn.

Cyrtandra hawaiensis C.B. Clarke x C. menziesii Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956), by Auguste Renoir

Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956)

Auguste Renoir · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra filipes Hillebr. x C. grayi C.B. Clarke

Cyrtandra filipes Hillebr. x C. grayi C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat

Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. macrocalyx Hillebr.

Cyrtandra grayi C.B. Clarke x C. macrocalyx Hillebr.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1979

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. 227 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. 1648686 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 2026-09-03 00:04 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.