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 “Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), Fourth Duke of Milan (r. 1450–66)” — 62 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 06:57 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.
Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), Fourth Duke of Milan (r. 1450–66)

Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), Fourth Duke of Milan (r. 1450–66)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/9/2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Woman with a Book

Woman with a Book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Woman with a Turban

Woman with a Turban

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea Solario

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Public domainThe Met
The Drawing Academy of Francesco Rosaspina

The Drawing Academy of Francesco Rosaspina

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I Sforza 1401-66, Duke of Milan 1450-66, by Gian Francesco Enzola

Francesco I Sforza 1401-66, Duke of Milan 1450-66

Gian Francesco Enzola · 1456

Public domainThe Met
Piazza San Domenico in Bologna; Piazza San Francesco and Villa Aldini in Bologna; Study of Tomb of Glossatori, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Piazza San Domenico in Bologna; Piazza San Francesco and Villa Aldini in Bologna; Study of Tomb of Glossatori

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew and the Angel, by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

Portrait of a Young Man

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 447 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-04 06:57 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.