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. 13 shown for “Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:42 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 Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Theater Ceiling, by Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840

Design for a Theater Ceiling

Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Theater Ceiling, by Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840

Design for Theater Ceiling

Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of P. Alphonsus Nicolai of Soicety of Jesus

Portrait of P. Alphonsus Nicolai of Soicety of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study: The left arm and the neighboring parts of the body of an elderly man, by Giuseppe Marchesi, called Il Sansone, Italian, 1699 – 1771

Study: The left arm and the neighboring parts of the body of an elderly man

Giuseppe Marchesi, called Il Sansone, Italian, 1699 – 1771 · 1725–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Gothic Hall

Stage Design: Gothic Hall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Count Carlo Gaetano di Gaisruck

Portrait of Count Carlo Gaetano di Gaisruck

Artist not stated in the record · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait Sketch, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Portrait Sketch

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Urn, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Urn

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Metal Frames for Purses, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Six Metal Frames for Purses

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steeple in Gothic Style, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Steeple in Gothic Style

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 79889 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 2026-09-05 08:42 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.