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 Francesco Castiglione” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:56 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
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Young Hunter with His Dogs in a Landscape, by Giovanni Francesco Castiglione

Young Hunter with His Dogs in a Landscape

Giovanni Francesco Castiglione · 1641–1710

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
A Congress of Animals, by Giovanni Francesco Castiglione

A Congress of Animals

Giovanni Francesco Castiglione · 1641–1710

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
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

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
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

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
The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1650

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
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

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
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Woman with a Book

Woman with a Book

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
Woman with a Turban

Woman with a Turban

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

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
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
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. 820 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. 2007 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 16:56 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.