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 “Golden Hood of Linz” — 56 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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.
Golden Hood of Linz

Golden Hood of Linz

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Golden Hood of Linz

Golden Hood of Linz

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza, by Lorenzo Lotto

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza

Lorenzo Lotto · 1547

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cope

Cope

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gamepiece with a Dead Heron, by Jan Weenix

Gamepiece with a Dead Heron

Jan Weenix · 1695

Public domainThe Met
Golden Ground Beetle

Golden Ground Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 2862728 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 23:10 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.