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. 16 shown for “Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)” — 44 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:29 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.
Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)

Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
A Pope with a Book

A Pope with a Book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Doorway Elevation with Papal Coat of Arms, by Pietro Camporese I, Italian, 1726 - 1781

Doorway Elevation with Papal Coat of Arms

Pietro Camporese I, Italian, 1726 - 1781 · ca. 1758–1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Decorated Capital Letter C, by Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752

Decorated Capital Letter C

Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Print

Print

Artist not stated in the record · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Capital Letter N, by Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752

Decorated Capital Letter N

Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV], by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808

Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV]

Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Capital Letter C, by Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752

Decorated Capital Letter C

Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Henry Seward, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809 - 1873

William Henry Seward

Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809 - 1873 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Del Castello dell'Aqua Giulia, plate IV from "Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia (The Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Aqua Giulia), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Del Castello dell'Aqua Giulia, plate IV from "Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia (The Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Aqua Giulia)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother

Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2258176 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-06 21:29 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.