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. 12 shown for “Giuseppe Scolari” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:21 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Sexton, by Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928

The Sexton

Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928 · (1883/cast by 1950)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Golden Age (Aetas Aurea), by Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928

The Golden Age (Aetas Aurea)

Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928 · (1886/probably cast c. 1946-1950)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Giuseppe Valadier, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French, 1762 – 1834

Portrait of a Man, Giuseppe Valadier

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French, 1762 – 1834 · 1825–27

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Giuseppe Chialli (active 1800-1839)

Portrait of Giuseppe Chialli (active 1800-1839)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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

Candlestick

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Giuseppe Bertolini (1804-1874), by Casanova Stabilimento Fotografico

Portrait of Giuseppe Bertolini (1804-1874)

Casanova Stabilimento Fotografico · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frame, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Frame

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · ca. 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Clare on façade of S. Silvestro in Capite, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Clare on façade of S. Silvestro in Capite

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

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

Chalice

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846)

Portrait of Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1722 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-26 23:21 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.