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. 19 shown for “Friedrich Gilly” — 52 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 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.
Stool (tabouret), by Friedrich Gilly

Stool (tabouret)

Friedrich Gilly · ca. 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
Callianthe picta (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Donnell

Callianthe picta (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Donnell

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Guilandina murifructa (Gillis & Proctor) G.P. Lewis

Guilandina murifructa (Gillis & Proctor) G.P. Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Guilandina murifructa (Gillis & Proctor) G.P. Lewis

Guilandina murifructa (Gillis & Proctor) G.P. Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Weighing Gold, by Adriaen Isenbrant

Man Weighing Gold

Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage among Trees, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Cottage among Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Swing, by Hubert Robert

The Swing

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. divaricatum (Greene) Gillis x T. radicans subsp. barkleyi Gillis

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wandering Minstrels, by Hubert Robert

Wandering Minstrels

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
Calocarpum huastecanum Gilly

Calocarpum huastecanum Gilly

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Studies of a Woman Reading, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Two Studies of a Woman Reading

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1635–40

Public domainThe Met
Nathan Admonishing David, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Nathan Admonishing David

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1650–55

Public domainThe Met
The Dance, by Hubert Robert

The Dance

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
The Bathing Pool, by Hubert Robert

The Bathing Pool

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
The Mouth of a Cave, by Hubert Robert

The Mouth of a Cave

Hubert Robert · 1784

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 8765 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:40 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.