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. 12 shown for “Giovanni Andrea Vavassore” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:16 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy, by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1699–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689), by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689)

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians, by Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659

Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians

Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saturn, by Girolamo Scarselli, Italian, active c. 1670

Saturn

Girolamo Scarselli, Italian, active c. 1670 · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study: A left hand in a leaning position, by Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian, 1610 - 1670

Study: A left hand in a leaning position

Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian, 1610 - 1670 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4282 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 17:16 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.