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. 16 shown for “Follower of Hans Baldung Grien” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:10 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.
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus brachyacantha Sarg. & Engelm.

Crataegus brachyacantha Sarg. & Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Christopher, by Follower of Hans Baldung Grien

Saint Christopher

Follower of Hans Baldung Grien · third quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"

A Stag Hunt, from "Der Weisskunig"

Artist not stated in the record · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ecstatic Christ, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1510–11

Public domainThe Met
Funerary tile

Funerary tile

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group of Seven Horses, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Group of Seven Horses

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 1534

Public domainThe Met
Deer-shaped ornament

Deer-shaped ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Barbara with a Chalice and Host, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

St. Barbara with a Chalice and Host

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 1513

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Charles V, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Portrait of Charles V

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Public domainThe Met
Title Border with Man in Armor in Center, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Title Border with Man in Armor in Center

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 1513

Public domainThe Met
The Lamentation of Christ, by Circle of Hans Baldung Grien

The Lamentation of Christ

Circle of Hans Baldung Grien · ca. 1513

Public domainThe Met
Madonna Lactans, from "Enchiridon Poeticum", by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Madonna Lactans, from "Enchiridon Poeticum"

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 1515

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin on Horseback, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

St. Martin on Horseback

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Public domainThe Met
Christ with the Instruments of Torture, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Christ with the Instruments of Torture

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 1517

Public domainThe Met
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian with Two Crossbow Men, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian with Two Crossbow Men

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

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. 119 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. 2868271 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 00:10 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.