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 “Devotional picture of the Madonna of the Chair” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:47 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.
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Devotional picture of the Madonna of the Chair

Devotional picture of the Madonna of the Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1770

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
Picture, by Gaspard Grégoire, French, 1751–1846

Picture

Gaspard Grégoire, French, 1751–1846 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna della Sedia

The Madonna della Sedia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800-1820

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
Design for an Icon, Madonna and Child

Design for an Icon, Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1335–45

Public domainThe Met
Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans, by Charles Paxson, American

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans

Charles Paxson, American · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Band or picture

Band or picture

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

The Adoration of the Magi

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey band or picture

Orphrey band or picture

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Cut-Paper Devotional Picture: Saint Joseph with the Christ Child

Cut-Paper Devotional Picture: Saint Joseph with the Christ Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Frame for small devotional picture, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Frame for small devotional picture

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1773-1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene

Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Devotional Picture: The Miraculous Virgin of Cell

Devotional Picture: The Miraculous Virgin of Cell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
The Great Rosary, by Master MTR of Nuremberg, German

The Great Rosary

Master MTR of Nuremberg, German · 1519

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. 978 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. 2984001 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-03 00:47 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.