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 “Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:57 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.
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen

Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order

Design for a Badge of the Sicilian Military Order

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox, by William Hogarth

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox

William Hogarth · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Etude de l'Ordre Toscan, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Etude de l'Ordre Toscan

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Archivolte et Imposte Composite. Balustre Corinthien. Balustre Toscan., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Archivolte et Imposte Composite. Balustre Corinthien. Balustre Toscan.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Archivolte et Imposte Composite. Balustre Corinthien. Balustre Toscan., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Archivolte et Imposte Composite. Balustre Corinthien. Balustre Toscan.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Title Page

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Modeles et developpements de divers Balustres dont les proportions sont établi selon le caractere de l'ordre tant à l'usage des Acroteres que de Balcons, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Modeles et developpements de divers Balustres dont les proportions sont établi selon le caractere de l'ordre tant à l'usage des Acroteres que de Balcons

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Developpement de l'Entablement Toscan, avec Corniche, Imposte, Archivolte à l'usage des Portes et Fenêtres, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Developpement de l'Entablement Toscan, avec Corniche, Imposte, Archivolte à l'usage des Portes et Fenêtres

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Title Page

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Napoleon I, by baron François Gérard

Portrait of Napoleon I

baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11

Public domainThe Met
Divers Profils de Piedestaux suivant les proportions des cinq ordres d'Architecture tant à l'usage des Bâtiments que propre à soutenir des figures, Vases et autres, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Divers Profils de Piedestaux suivant les proportions des cinq ordres d'Architecture tant à l'usage des Bâtiments que propre à soutenir des figures, Vases et autres

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Badge for an Order

Badge for an Order

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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
Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

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. 400 matched · 24 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. 4030174 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-06 02:57 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.