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. 14 shown for “Girolamo Carattoni” — 30 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 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 Tiburtine Sibyl, by Girolamo Carattoni

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Girolamo Carattoni · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Girolamo Colonna, Cardinal

Portrait of Girolamo Colonna, Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Pius VI taking leave of the Augustinian monks in Siena, by Girolamo Carattoni

Pope Pius VI taking leave of the Augustinian monks in Siena

Girolamo Carattoni · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pope Clement XI

Portrait of Pope Clement XI

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celsia orientalis L.

Celsia orientalis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruta chalepensis L.

Ruta chalepensis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melilotus neapolitana Ten.

Melilotus neapolitana Ten.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Girolamo Siciolante, Italian, ca. 1521 - 1575

Virgin and Child

Girolamo Siciolante, Italian, ca. 1521 - 1575 · ca. 1521–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Tree beside a Stream, by Girolamo Mattioli, Italian

Landscape with Tree beside a Stream

Girolamo Mattioli, Italian · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Father Thomas Cervioni

Portrait of Father Thomas Cervioni

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Martelli, by Dominic Rossi

Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Martelli

Dominic Rossi · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a sepulchral wall monument, by Girolamo Rainaldi, 1570 - 1655

Design for a sepulchral wall monument

Girolamo Rainaldi, 1570 - 1655 · ca. 1600–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Palace in Clouds, by Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701

Stage Design: Palace in Clouds

Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pistacia lentiscus L.

Pistacia lentiscus L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1872

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28 matched · 28 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 03:34 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.