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. 18 shown for “Danaë Painter” — 58 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:40 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.
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Danaë Painter

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Danaë Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Dana Gibson, by William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938

Charles Dana Gibson

William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938 · c. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stamnos with cover (jar), by Deepdene Painter

Terracotta stamnos with cover (jar)

Deepdene Painter · ca. 470–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
John Singer Sargent, by Charles Dana Gibson, 14 Sep 1867 - 29 Dec 1944

John Singer Sargent

Charles Dana Gibson, 14 Sep 1867 - 29 Dec 1944 · c. 1910-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Diosphos Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Diosphos Painter · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Edmund L. Dana

Edmund L. Dana

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegina Visited by Jupiter, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1767–69

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Dana Greene

Samuel Dana Greene

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nymph of Fontainebleau, by French (Fontainebleau) Painter

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

French (Fontainebleau) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Dana Greene

Samuel Dana Greene

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Montipora danae

Montipora danae

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, by Jan Muller

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller · 1604

Public domainThe Met
Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, by Jan Muller

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller · 1604

Public domainThe Met
Reclining Female Nude, by Domenico Tintoretto

Reclining Female Nude

Domenico Tintoretto · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Reclining Female Nude, by Domenico Tintoretto

Reclining Female Nude

Domenico Tintoretto · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Reclining Female Nude, by Domenico Tintoretto

Reclining Female Nude

Domenico Tintoretto · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 22096 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 09:40 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.