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 “Gregorio Pagani” — 43 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:50 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 Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study, Profile of Architectural Molding (verso), by Gregorio Pagani

The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study, Profile of Architectural Molding (verso)

Gregorio Pagani · 1592

Public domainThe Met
Chaetotropis andina Ball

Chaetotropis andina Ball

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (recto); large-scale cropped sketches of draperies and legs (verso), by Gregorio Pagani

Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (recto); large-scale cropped sketches of draperies and legs (verso)

Gregorio Pagani · 1590–92

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winged Putti with Open Music Books, by Lorenzo Pasinelli

Winged Putti with Open Music Books

Lorenzo Pasinelli · 1629–1700

Public domainThe Met
Trochopora truncata (De Gregorio, 1890)

Trochopora truncata (De Gregorio, 1890)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piazza San Gregorio, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Piazza San Gregorio

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Gregorio VII and Four Angels, Study after Raphael "Persons of the Papacy"; Antique Bench, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Pope Gregorio VII and Four Angels, Study after Raphael "Persons of the Papacy"; Antique Bench

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medicago hispida Gaertn.

Medicago hispida Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsilea berteroi A. Braun

Marsilea berteroi A. Braun

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urena sinuata L.

Urena sinuata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hyptis recurvata Poit.

Hyptis recurvata Poit.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/1/95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the organ case of S. Gregorio in Bologna, by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765

Design for the organ case of S. Gregorio in Bologna

Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1730

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1327 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 20:50 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.