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 “Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:49 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.
Dish with long-tailed birds and hibiscuses, by Zhang Cheng

Dish with long-tailed birds and hibiscuses

Zhang Cheng · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of a female Immortal, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century)

Standing figure of a female Immortal

Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Jan Provoost

The Crucifixion

Jan Provoost · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Removing the saddle, inspecting the arrows 解鞍調箭圖, by Traditionally attributed to Zhang Kan (傳)張戡 (active mid-10th century)

Removing the saddle, inspecting the arrows 解鞍調箭圖

Traditionally attributed to Zhang Kan (傳)張戡 (active mid-10th century) · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Zhang Feng

Landscapes

Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Public domainThe Met
Woman holding a child, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Xuan (active early-mid-8th century)

Woman holding a child

Formerly attributed to Zhang Xuan (active early-mid-8th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Two boys playing with the puppet of a lion, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Xuan (active early-mid-8th century)

Two boys playing with the puppet of a lion

Formerly attributed to Zhang Xuan (active early-mid-8th century) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Man and woman enjoying plum blossoms, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century)

Man and woman enjoying plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century) · 15th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grere'o (shield), by Solomon Islands artist

Grere'o (shield)

Solomon Islands artist · Early to mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
A traveler on horseback with attendants, by Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century)

A traveler on horseback with attendants

Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Flowers and insects, by Formerly attributed to Qiu Yuqing (early to mid-10th century)

Flowers and insects

Formerly attributed to Qiu Yuqing (early to mid-10th century) · 15th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Fishing under an overhanging cliff, by Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century)

Fishing under an overhanging cliff

Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Courtesans with fan and flute, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century)

Courtesans with fan and flute

Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century) · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Claudius Floris

Charity

Claudius Floris · 1536–1547/48

Public domainThe Met
Luohan seated under a tree, by Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century)

Luohan seated under a tree

Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Bullfight in a Divided Ring

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
A group of geese under snow-covered willow and blossoming trees, by Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century)

A group of geese under snow-covered willow and blossoming trees

Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Three goats under a flowering plum tree, by Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century)

Three goats under a flowering plum tree

Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

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. 401 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. 940569 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 2026-08-28 17:49 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.