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 “Figure imprisoned by a restraint” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 18:08 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.
Figure imprisoned by a restraint

Figure imprisoned by a restraint

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
The Scottsboro Boys – Four Freed! Five To Go!

The Scottsboro Boys – Four Freed! Five To Go!

Artist not stated in the record · August 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843, carved ca. 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Cautivo de la Virgen de la Merced, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

Cautivo de la Virgen de la Merced

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Margaret, by Michael Pacher

Saint Margaret

Michael Pacher · ca. 1470–80

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Ambrosius Benson

The Lamentation

Ambrosius Benson · ca. 1520–25

Public domainThe Met
L' Armee Belge Participe a la Garde du Rhin, reverse, by Paul Dubois, Belgian, born Aywaille, Belgium 1858 or 1859-died Uccle, Belgium 1938

L' Armee Belge Participe a la Garde du Rhin, reverse

Paul Dubois, Belgian, born Aywaille, Belgium 1858 or 1859-died Uccle, Belgium 1938 · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior Figure, by Lower Niger Valley caster

Warrior Figure

Lower Niger Valley caster · 1455–1640

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · ca. 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Visiting the Imprisoned, by François Hutin

Visiting the Imprisoned

François Hutin · ca.1737–42

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rothschild lamp, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Rothschild lamp

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2013618 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 18:08 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.