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 “Design for the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Spinola, Genoa” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:08 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.
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Design for the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Design for the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of mirrored double doors, by Lorenzo de Ferrari

Pair of mirrored double doors

Lorenzo de Ferrari · ca. 1743–44

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Ceiling of the Salon of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Design for the Ceiling of the Salon of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
A Salon in the Palazzo Satriano, Naples, by L. Iely

A Salon in the Palazzo Satriano, Naples

L. Iely · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Unknown

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknown · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design for the Salone di Stupinigi (Main Hall of the Hunting Lodge), by Filippo Juvarra, Italian, 1678 - 1736

Ceiling Design for the Salone di Stupinigi (Main Hall of the Hunting Lodge)

Filippo Juvarra, Italian, 1678 - 1736 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Clement X (1590–1676), by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Salon, by Vladislav Dmochowski, Lithuanian

Interior of a Salon

Vladislav Dmochowski, Lithuanian · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Annunciation

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Study of Hermes, Preparatory Study for the Fall of the Giants, Ceiling Fresco at the Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo, by Gian Giacomo Barbelli

Study of Hermes, Preparatory Study for the Fall of the Giants, Ceiling Fresco at the Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo

Gian Giacomo Barbelli · 1649

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love, by Michele Desubleo

Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love

Michele Desubleo · 1665–75

Public domainThe Met
Plafon du Salon de Me. la Princesse de Rohan. coté opposé aux croisées, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Plafon du Salon de Me. la Princesse de Rohan. coté opposé aux croisées

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · after 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Study for the Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Study for the Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Man the Hunter, Man the Shepherd, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Man the Hunter, Man the Shepherd, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Portrait of a Woman

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Capricorn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Capricorn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Autumn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

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. 175 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. 3015366 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 20:08 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.