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. 18 shown for “Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder” — 46 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859), by Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder

Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859)

Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Sample, by Johann Friedrich Netto, German

Sample

Johann Friedrich Netto, German · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus, by Meissen Manufactory

Venus

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
A Monument for the Poet Christoph Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) by Adolph Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799)

A Monument for the Poet Christoph Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) by Adolph Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799)

Artist not stated in the record · 1742–1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequina, by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

Harlequina

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Celebrated Authors, by Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864

Celebrated Authors

Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800

George Washington

Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800 · c. 1775-80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Christian VIII

Christian VIII

Artist not stated in the record · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Johann Gottlieb Glume, German, 1711 - 1778

Portrait of a Gentleman

Johann Gottlieb Glume, German, 1711 - 1778 · 1740-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monks in a Cloister

Monks in a Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · 1768-1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate), by Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815

Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate)

Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815 · ca. 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tombs, Halls of Justice, by Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel, German, born Hammer, Germany 1807-died Ammerland, Germany 1882

The Tombs, Halls of Justice

Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel, German, born Hammer, Germany 1807-died Ammerland, Germany 1882 · 1850

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11353 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.