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 Solimena” — 58 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:40 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.
The Birth of the Virgin, by Francesco Solimena

The Birth of the Virgin

Francesco Solimena · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Ferdinand Patritus of Naples at the Age of Sixty

Portrait of Ferdinand Patritus of Naples at the Age of Sixty

Artist not stated in the record · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona (1687–1750) and an Enslaved Servant, by Francesco Solimena

Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona (1687–1750) and an Enslaved Servant

Francesco Solimena · probably 1731 or 1732

Public domainThe Met
Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Paul

Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Paul

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of David, by Francesco Solimena

The Triumph of David

Francesco Solimena · 1677–1747

Public domainThe Met
Clement XI Vesting His Niece as Nun

Clement XI Vesting His Niece as Nun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter with his Eagle (recto), by Francesco Solimena

Jupiter with his Eagle (recto)

Francesco Solimena · 1657–1747

Public domainThe Met
Study for a fresco for the hall of the Senate, Genova: The relics of St. John Baptist are brought to Genova, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Study for a fresco for the hall of the Senate, Genova: The relics of St. John Baptist are brought to Genova

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Continence of Scipio, by Francesco Solimena

The Continence of Scipio

Francesco Solimena · 1657–1747

Public domainThe Met
Angel Carrying a Monstrance

Angel Carrying a Monstrance

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group of Allegorical figures: Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration ?, by Francesco Solimena

Group of Allegorical figures: Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration ?

Francesco Solimena · 1657–1747

Public domainThe Met
Study for Two Cherubim

Study for Two Cherubim

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of Study, by Francesco Solimena

Allegorical Figure of Study

Francesco Solimena · 1657–1747

Public domainThe Met
Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1670–1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Fall of Simon Maqus, S. Paolo Maggiare, Naples, by Francesco Solimena

Study for the Fall of Simon Maqus, S. Paolo Maggiare, Naples

Francesco Solimena · 1690

Public domainThe Met
The Death of Viginia, Daughter of Marcus Claudius

The Death of Viginia, Daughter of Marcus Claudius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prophetess Deborah Ordering Barak to Take Arms against Sisera, by Francesco Solimena

The Prophetess Deborah Ordering Barak to Take Arms against Sisera

Francesco Solimena · 1728–33

Public domainThe Met
Study of Two Putti, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Study of Two Putti

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1689–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noli me tangere, by Pietro Monaco

Noli me tangere

Pietro Monaco · 1730–39

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Design for a Reliquary

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bathsheba at her bath, with attendants surrounding her, by Pierre Jacques Gaultier

Bathsheba at her bath, with attendants surrounding her

Pierre Jacques Gaultier · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevation of an Altar with Alternative Suggestions, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Design for the Elevation of an Altar with Alternative Suggestions

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1700–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Muse Urania, by Michel Dorigny

Study for the Muse Urania

Michel Dorigny · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1715–18

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 438 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 13:40 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.