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 “Giovanni Battista Cipriani” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:30 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 Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Girl with Globe, by Unidentified

Girl with Globe

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, with the lowering of the cross at center, soldiers throughout, and a thief on a cross at left, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

The Crucifixion, with the lowering of the cross at center, soldiers throughout, and a thief on a cross at left

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1762

Public domainThe Met
State Carriage of George III, by William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796

State Carriage of George III

William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Milton, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

John Milton

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Geography

Geography

Artist not stated in the record · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Three Panels for a Library, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Design for Three Panels for a Library

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1745–85

Public domainThe Met
Ceres

Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forum of Trajan, Rome, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

The Forum of Trajan, Rome

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · late 18th–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Prudence and Beauty

Prudence and Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trevi Fountain, Rome, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

The Trevi Fountain, Rome

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · late 18th–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Distressed Mother

The Distressed Mother

Artist not stated in the record · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Milton as a Boy, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

John Milton as a Boy

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Clytia

Clytia

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Milton, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

John Milton

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Love Cares'd

Love Cares'd

Artist not stated in the record · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
The Genius of Modesty Preventing Love Unveiling Beauty

The Genius of Modesty Preventing Love Unveiling Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Minerva and Mercury

Minerva and Mercury

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
Wisdom – Sapience

Wisdom – Sapience

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Boys at Play

Boys at Play

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800

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. 1242 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. 1777 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 11:30 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.