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 “Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:15 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.
Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Diorama with Model of Classical Temple Ruins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone temple boy

Limestone temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ruins of Phaena at Al-Masmiyah, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins of Phaena at Al-Masmiyah, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 28, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

Model of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid, by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759

Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 18th or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."

Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum, by George Loring Brown, born Boston, MA 1814-died Malden, MA 1889

View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum

George Loring Brown, born Boston, MA 1814-died Malden, MA 1889 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Ruins of Greek Temple, Azani, Phrygia, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Ruins of Greek Temple, Azani, Phrygia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Temple of Neptune, Paestum, by Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934

Temple of Neptune, Paestum

Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934 · 1898

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 · 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. 2896597 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-29 11:15 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.