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 “Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 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.
Saber

Saber

Artist not stated in the record · Grip and guard, second half of the 17th century; blade, late 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch

Detail of the Call to Arms Statue on the Dewey Arch

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Detail of the Sculpture the Triumphant Return on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Detail of the Sculpture the Triumphant Return on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

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
Detail of the Combat sculpture on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Detail of the Combat sculpture on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Artist not stated in the record · 251–253 CE

Public domainThe Met
Detail of the Sculpture Peace on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Detail of the Sculpture Peace on the Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

The Dewey Arch, Madison Square, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Temporary Trumphal Arch, by Charles-André Tramblin, French, active mid-18th century

Elevation of a Temporary Trumphal Arch

Charles-André Tramblin, French, active mid-18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheellock Rifle, by Daniel Sadeler

Wheellock Rifle

Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Public domainThe Met
Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne, au Château de Versailles / Plan du premier étage de l’Escalier de la Reyne, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne, au Château de Versailles / Plan du premier étage de l’Escalier de la Reyne

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727–42

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier of Ambrogio Spinola (1569–1630) with Scabbard Chape, by M. I. F.

Rapier of Ambrogio Spinola (1569–1630) with Scabbard Chape

M. I. F. · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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
PROFIL de la Chapelle ou est la Sepulture de Monsieur de Montmorency à Molins en Bourbonnois, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

PROFIL de la Chapelle ou est la Sepulture de Monsieur de Montmorency à Molins en Bourbonnois

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

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
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal cabinet, by William Vile

Medal cabinet

William Vile · 1760–61

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal Arch Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Triumphal Arch Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coupe du grand Escalier de l’Hôtel de Toulouse à Paris prise sur sa largeur et qui laisse voir l’entrée du Vestibule au rez de chaussée, et la Porte d’entrée du grand Appartement au premier étage, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Coupe du grand Escalier de l’Hôtel de Toulouse à Paris prise sur sa largeur et qui laisse voir l’entrée du Vestibule au rez de chaussée, et la Porte d’entrée du grand Appartement au premier étage

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1713–42

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. 804 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3523470 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 06:37 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.