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 an altar retable for a project” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:34 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.
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Crucifixion

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of an altar retable for a project

Elevation of an altar retable for a project

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

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
Project for the elevation of an altar

Project for the elevation of an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, by Francí Gomar

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló

Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar of the Annunciation for S. Antonio dell'Ospedale in Anagni, by Giuseppe Subleyras, Italian, 1745 – 1819

Project for an altar of the Annunciation for S. Antonio dell'Ospedale in Anagni

Giuseppe Subleyras, Italian, 1745 – 1819 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevation of an Altar

Design for the Elevation of an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity Adored by All Saints, by Spanish Painter

The Trinity Adored by All Saints

Spanish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Retable with Scenes from the Life of Saint Andrew, by Master of Roussillon

Retable with Scenes from the Life of Saint Andrew

Master of Roussillon · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Incomplete project for the elevation of an altar

Incomplete project for the elevation of an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Part of an Altar Retable, from "Architectura und Ausztheilung der V Seulen", by Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1551 – 1599

Elevation of Part of an Altar Retable, from "Architectura und Ausztheilung der V Seulen"

Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1551 – 1599 · 1593–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Project: The elevation of an altar

Project: The elevation of an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man Holding a Book, by Master of the View of Saint Gudula

Young Man Holding a Book

Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Design for an altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an altar

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

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

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Design for Elevation of an Altar Retable, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for Elevation of an Altar Retable

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Miracle of the Palm Tree on the Flight to Egypt

The Miracle of the Palm Tree on the Flight to Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490–1510

Public domainThe Met
Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

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. 189 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. 4755597 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 18:34 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.