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 an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:30 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.
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), by David Morier

Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)

David Morier · ca. 1751–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

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
1c Captain John Smith plate proof

1c Captain John Smith plate proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1907

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
Portrait of Oppenord (Before Portrait and Lettering), by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Oppenord (Before Portrait and Lettering)

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Arthur, 3rd Duke of Bretagne (1393-1458)

Portrait of Arthur, 3rd Duke of Bretagne (1393-1458)

Artist not stated in the record · 1710-1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Oppenord, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Portrait of Oppenord

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester

Portrait of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs for the Carriage of the Duke of Ossuna by Bernard Picart, by Bernard Picart, 1673–1733

Album of Prints: Designs for the Carriage of the Duke of Ossuna by Bernard Picart

Bernard Picart, 1673–1733 · 1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Coupe de la Maison du jardin nommé le désert près la forêt de Marly, batie par Mr. Demonville, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Coupe de la Maison du jardin nommé le désert près la forêt de Marly, batie par Mr. Demonville

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

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. 618 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. 4016636 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-02 21:30 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.