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. 17 shown for “Ferdinand Tietz” — 51 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:08 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.
Dancer and flute player, by Ferdinand Tietz

Dancer and flute player

Ferdinand Tietz · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead stag and a hound, by Ferdinand Tietz

Dead stag and a hound

Ferdinand Tietz · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand Hayden, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Ferdinand Hayden

Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode

Commode

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, by E. R. Morgan

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden

E. R. Morgan · c. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, by Unidentified Artist

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden

Unidentified Artist · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand W. Peck, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

Ferdinand W. Peck

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
Rodolfo Gonzaga (1451–1495), by Andrea Mantegna

Rodolfo Gonzaga (1451–1495)

Andrea Mantegna

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506), by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1519

Public domainThe Met
Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525), by Hans Maler

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525)

Hans Maler · 1525

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4416 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 08:08 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.