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. 17 shown for “Freeman (late Oswald Allen)” — 58 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:17 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 Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons

Bernardo Daddi

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of George Bennett (1804-1893), by Freeman (late Oswald Allen)

Portrait of George Bennett (1804-1893)

Freeman (late Oswald Allen) · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Archer's Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mrs. George Bennett, by Freeman (late Oswald Allen)

Portrait of Mrs. George Bennett

Freeman (late Oswald Allen) · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Ages of Humans, by Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero)

The Three Ages of Humans

Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Trillium cuneatum Raf.

Trillium cuneatum Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sr. George Bridges Rodney, Rear Admiral of the Blue, by Anonymous, British, late 18th century

Sr. George Bridges Rodney, Rear Admiral of the Blue

Anonymous, British, late 18th century · May 9, 1780

Public domainThe Met
Trillium cuneatum Raf.

Trillium cuneatum Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Possibly James Freeman, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Possibly James Freeman

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan, by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Public domainThe Met
Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, by Master of Monte Oliveto

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
The Burg Weiler Altar Triptych (Altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and Saints), by Master of the Burg Weiler Altarpiece

The Burg Weiler Altar Triptych (Altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and Saints)

Master of the Burg Weiler Altarpiece · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 57556 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 06:17 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.