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. 12 shown for “Etienne DuPérac” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:04 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Naval engagement set inside a Roman arena, with the river Tiber and nymphs at lower left and right, by Etienne DuPérac

Naval engagement set inside a Roman arena, with the river Tiber and nymphs at lower left and right

Etienne DuPérac · 1577–85

Public domainThe Met
Longitudinal Section Showing the Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica as Conceived by Michelangelo (published in 1569), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Longitudinal Section Showing the Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica as Conceived by Michelangelo (published in 1569), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1551, 1558–61

Public domainThe Met
Elevation Showing the Exterior of Saint Peter's Basilica from the South as Conceived by Michelangelo (published in 1569), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Elevation Showing the Exterior of Saint Peter's Basilica from the South as Conceived by Michelangelo (published in 1569), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1558–61

Public domainThe Met
Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1569

Public domainThe Met
View of the Campidoglio as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

View of the Campidoglio as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1569

Public domainThe Met
View of the Roman Capitol, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

View of the Roman Capitol, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1569

Public domainThe Met
Temples on the Isle of Tiber, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Temples on the Isle of Tiber, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchre of Augustus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Sepulchre of Augustus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1575

Public domainThe Met
Marriage of Annibale Altemps and Ortensia Borromeo, Rome, March 5, 1565, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Marriage of Annibale Altemps and Ortensia Borromeo, Rome, March 5, 1565, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1569

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchre of Augustus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

Sepulchre of Augustus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 1575

Public domainThe Met
St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Etienne DuPérac

St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 04:04 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.