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 “Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:55 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.
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Decoration of a Chapel and Garden Statuary, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Designs for Decoration of a Chapel and Garden Statuary

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Entombment, by Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino)

The Entombment

Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · 1554

Public domainThe Met
Oratory Chapel

Oratory Chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Photomechanical print of Jack's Memory Chapel

Photomechanical print of Jack's Memory Chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar in a side chapel

Project for an altar in a side chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
An oratory dedicated to the Virgin

An oratory dedicated to the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child, by Léon Bonnat

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child

Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Public domainThe Met
Project for the decoration of a chapel

Project for the decoration of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

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
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar in a side chapel

Project for an altar in a side chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Project for the decoration of a chapel

Project for the decoration of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
West wall of the chapel of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor

West wall of the chapel of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
An Altar Lamp in the Family Chapel of the Honorati in the Cathedral in Jesi, by Luigi Valadier, Italian, 1726 – 1785

An Altar Lamp in the Family Chapel of the Honorati in the Cathedral in Jesi

Luigi Valadier, Italian, 1726 – 1785 · ca. 1775

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. 1143 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 543049 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 07:55 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.