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 Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664” — 39 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:08 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.
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · late 1640s

Public domainThe Met
The Assumption, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

The Assumption

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1660–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Seated Woman, Mother and Child, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Seated Woman, Mother and Child

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1645–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1645–50

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap

Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)

Public domainThe Met
The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul

The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Varii Capricci, e Paesi inventati, e disegnati dal celebre Gio. Benedetto Castiglione ... tratti dal raccolta Zanettiana, by Gaetano Gherardo Zompini

Varii Capricci, e Paesi inventati, e disegnati dal celebre Gio. Benedetto Castiglione ... tratti dal raccolta Zanettiana

Gaetano Gherardo Zompini · 1758–59, published 1786

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two shepherds, a donkey and other animals in a landscape, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Two shepherds, a donkey and other animals in a landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1638–40

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Portrait of a Man with a Turban

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Subject: Five Nude Male Figures Punishing Another, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Fantastic Subject: Five Nude Male Figures Punishing Another

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1609–64

Public domainThe Met
Pan Sitting Opposite a Vase, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Pan Sitting Opposite a Vase

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noah Entering the Ark, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Noah Entering the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1609–64

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

The Holy Family

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Pastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1609–64

Public domainThe Met
Study for the Painting Pastoral Journey, Figures and Cattle in a Landscape, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Study for the Painting Pastoral Journey, Figures and Cattle in a Landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · ca. 1633

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)

Public domainThe Met
Caravan at Rest Near a Herm, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Caravan at Rest Near a Herm

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Temporalis Aeternitas', four scholars amongst ruins, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

'Temporalis Aeternitas', four scholars amongst ruins

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family on their flight into Egypt, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

The Holy Family on their flight into Egypt

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1647

Public domainThe Met
The Festival of Pan

The Festival of Pan

Artist not stated in the record · 1648

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. 112 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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 19:08 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.