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 “Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:25 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.
Guitar, by Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel

Guitar

Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
San Biagio on the Giudecca, by Giacomo Guardi

San Biagio on the Giudecca

Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Island of Burano, by Giacomo Guardi

The Island of Burano

Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quinta Valle at Castello, by Giacomo Guardi

Quinta Valle at Castello

Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, by Giacomo Guardi

The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Bearded Man Looking to Upper Right (recto); Head of an Old Man and a Drapery Study (verso), by Giacomo Cavedone

Head of a Bearded Man Looking to Upper Right (recto); Head of an Old Man and a Drapery Study (verso)

Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, by Giacomo Zoboli

Christ Blessing

Giacomo Zoboli · 1681–1767

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling Youth Facing Left, by Giacomo Cavedone

Kneeling Youth Facing Left

Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child with Two Male Saints, by Giacomo Cavedone

The Virgin and Child with Two Male Saints

Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Public domainThe Met
Giacomo Glech

Giacomo Glech

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation of Our Lady (Luke 1:39-56)(recto); Zachariah (verso), by Giacomo Zoboli

The Visitation of Our Lady (Luke 1:39-56)(recto); Zachariah (verso)

Giacomo Zoboli · 1681–1767

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Giacomo Palma, the younger, Italian, born Venice, Italy 1544-died Venice, Italy 1628

Drawing

Giacomo Palma, the younger, Italian, born Venice, Italy 1544-died Venice, Italy 1628 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tower at Marghera, by Giacomo Guardi

The Tower at Marghera

Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835

Public domainThe Met
Leptomitus lacteus (Roth) C. Agardh 1824.

Leptomitus lacteus (Roth) C. Agardh 1824.

Artist not stated in the record · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Bearded Man (Nicodemus), by Giacomo Cavedone

Head of a Bearded Man (Nicodemus)

Giacomo Cavedone · 1577–1660

Public domainThe Met
Leptomitus doriae Cesati

Leptomitus doriae Cesati

Artist not stated in the record · 1856

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. 64 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. 17502 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 10:25 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.