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 “Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 04:28 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.
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes after historical painters, by Yun Xiang

Landscapes after historical painters

Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1906 to 22 Jul 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Gaetano Gandolfi

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Gaetano Gandolfi · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1906 to 31 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Judgment of Paris, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, by James Gillray

A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique

James Gillray · February 11, 1801

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1913 to 1 Sep 1913

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

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sentimental Conversation, by Quirijn van Brekelenkam

Sentimental Conversation

Quirijn van Brekelenkam · early 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Elymus bakeri (E.E. Nelson) Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1895

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. 28 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. 1814979 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 2026-09-10 04:28 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.