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 Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:44 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.
Bassoon, by Giosue Esposito

Bassoon

Giosue Esposito · 1881

Public domainThe Met
La Basilica del Foro a Pompei, by Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

La Basilica del Foro a Pompei

Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Porta di Pompei, by Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

Porta di Pompei

Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Avanzi di Pesto, by Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

Avanzi di Pesto

Francesco Wenzel, Italian, active 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Bartholomew and Simon, by Master of Saint Francis

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

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
Tenor Valve Trombone in B-flat, by Pietro Borsari

Tenor Valve Trombone in B-flat

Pietro Borsari · ca. 1870

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
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
Geography

Geography

Artist not stated in the record · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paul Reading

Saint Paul Reading

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman in a Thoughtful Attitude

Young Woman in a Thoughtful Attitude

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Man

Portrait of a Young Man

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Two Young Girls, One Holding a Cage

Two Young Girls, One Holding a Cage

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Male Portrait with Drapery over Shoulders

Male Portrait with Drapery over Shoulders

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pietà, by Carlo Crivelli

Pietà

Carlo Crivelli · 1476

Public domainThe Met
Salvator Mundi, with a Globe and a Cross

Salvator Mundi, with a Globe and a Cross

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

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. 973 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. 62727 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 22:44 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.