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 “Giuseppe Bernardino Bison” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:00 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 Nativity of Christ, with Shepherds and Kings in Adoration, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

The Nativity of Christ, with Shepherds and Kings in Adoration

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · ca. 1782–1844

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Lunette, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Project for a Lunette

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Three Nude men, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Three Nude men

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Decorated with Grotesque, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Design for a Wall Decorated with Grotesque

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Figural Studies, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Figural Studies

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Circular Frame of Branches Fastened with Ribbon, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Circular Frame of Branches Fastened with Ribbon

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel in a Gothic Church (recto); Outline sketch of an oval form (verso), by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Chapel in a Gothic Church (recto); Outline sketch of an oval form (verso)

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a Wall Painting, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Sketch for a Wall Painting

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene of Antique Sacrifice, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Scene of Antique Sacrifice

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Fountain in a Park, by Unknown

Fountain in a Park

Unknown · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Interior of a Passageway, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Design for the Interior of a Passageway

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1800–1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Assisting a Woman to Mount a Horse, with Two Other Figures and a Dog, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Man Assisting a Woman to Mount a Horse, with Two Other Figures and a Dog

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1762–1844

Public domainThe Met
Figural Sketch with a Seated Girl Conversing with a Standing Girl, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Figural Sketch with a Seated Girl Conversing with a Standing Girl

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Children, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Frieze with Children

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular and Horizontal reliefs, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular and Horizontal reliefs

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Public domainThe Met
A Sleeping Man and Mother with Baby, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

A Sleeping Man and Mother with Baby

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular Reliefs, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular Reliefs

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · 1782–1844

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Project for a Ceiling

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venetian Capriccio: Landscape with a Farm Building, Sarcophagus, and Fountain (recto); Monument (verso), by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Venetian Capriccio: Landscape with a Farm Building, Sarcophagus, and Fountain (recto); Monument (verso)

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a Wall Painting, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Sketch for a Wall Painting

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · early 19th 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. 27 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. 14315 matched · 40 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 2026-08-29 08:00 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.