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 “Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:08 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.
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

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
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, by Gerard David

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument for an Artist

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument for an Artist

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Matteo Torelli, Italian

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Matteo Torelli, Italian · 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Stage: A Cemetery, by Pasquale Canna, Italian, active 18th century

Design for a Stage: A Cemetery

Pasquale Canna, Italian, active 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Joseph (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

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. 117 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. 4552879 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 01:08 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.