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 “David Cutting off the Head of Goliath” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 16:01 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.
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
David Cutting off the Head of Goliath

David Cutting off the Head of Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David with the head of Goliath, by Bartolomeo Bellano

David with the head of Goliath

Bartolomeo Bellano · 1470–80

Public domainThe Met
David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca .1595–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Allen Cut-Off Valve, Patent Model

Allen Cut-Off Valve, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

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

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Study of Female Nude, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Study of Female Nude

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · June 22 - July 5, c. 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Five Headgears, as Worn by Berlin Women, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1782 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Lower Part of a Standing Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Lower Part of a Standing Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1868 - April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Bust of a Child (from a plaster cast), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Study of a Bust of a Child (from a plaster cast)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1881–92

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. 424 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. 3084827 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-07 16:01 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.