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. 13 shown for “Giovanbattista Polidoro” — 16 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:25 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.
King's attendant, by Giovanbattista Polidoro

King's attendant

Giovanbattista Polidoro · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Military Trophy after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page, Folio 98: Two Paintings after Caravaggio and Raphael; Verso: Eagle and Ox, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 98: Two Paintings after Caravaggio and Raphael; Verso: Eagle and Ox

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diverse Trophies

Diverse Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian, born Caravaggio, Italy ca. 1492-died Messina, Italy 1543

Drawing

Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian, born Caravaggio, Italy ca. 1492-died Messina, Italy 1543 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Figures with Trophy, by Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian, 1499 - 1543

Seated Figures with Trophy

Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian, 1499 - 1543 · 1499–1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Clelia Crossing the Tiber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15 matched · 15 examined · 1 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 2026-09-07 06:25 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.