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 “Georg Philipp Rugendas II” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:33 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.
Three Musicians and Harlequin in an Ornamental Frame, by Georg Philipp Rugendas II

Three Musicians and Harlequin in an Ornamental Frame

Georg Philipp Rugendas II · 1720–74

Public domainThe Met
A Military Operation

A Military Operation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720-1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge, by Georg Philipp Rugendas

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge

Georg Philipp Rugendas · 1722

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Trumpeters

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Trumpeters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cavalry Men at Rest, by Georg Philipp Rugendas

Cavalry Men at Rest

Georg Philipp Rugendas · late 17th–mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Lieutenant

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Lieutenant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Standard-Bearer

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Standard-Bearer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, by Charles-Théodore Frère

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Nicolaus Rugendas the Younger

Watch

Nicolaus Rugendas the Younger · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Corporal

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Corporal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring with the Name of Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71)

Ring with the Name of Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71)

Artist not stated in the record · 1464–71

Public domainThe Met
Suite of Cavalry Officers: General of the Army

Suite of Cavalry Officers: General of the Army

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page of a Suite of Cavalry Officers

Dedication Page of a Suite of Cavalry Officers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
DECORATION DU THRONE ELEVÉ AU BALCON DE L’APARTEMENT DE L’INFANTE. Pour leurs Majesté et la famille Royalle, à l’occasion de la feste que la Ville a donnée sur le bassin de la Rivierre de Seine, en Rejouissance du Mariage de Madame premiere de France, avec Dom Philippes II. Infante d’Espagne, le 29 Aoust 1739; Executée par les Bâtiments du Roy. Sur les Dessins de Mr. Gabriel, premier Architecte du Roy., by François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754

DECORATION DU THRONE ELEVÉ AU BALCON DE L’APARTEMENT DE L’INFANTE. Pour leurs Majesté et la famille Royalle, à l’occasion de la feste que la Ville a donnée sur le bassin de la Rivierre de Seine, en Rejouissance du Mariage de Madame premiere de France, avec Dom Philippes II. Infante d’Espagne, le 29 Aoust 1739; Executée par les Bâtiments du Roy. Sur les Dessins de Mr. Gabriel, premier Architecte du Roy.

François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754 · after 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, by Annibale Carracci

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness

Annibale Carracci · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy., by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy.

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · after 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Uve (sic) du Couvent de St. Cosimato (no. II), by Francois Morel, French, born France 1768-died Rome, Italy after 1830

Uve (sic) du Couvent de St. Cosimato (no. II)

Francois Morel, French, born France 1768-died Rome, Italy after 1830

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. 249 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 227421 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 14:33 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.