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. 14 shown for “Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:35 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.
Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins, by Albrecht Dürer

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Albrecht Dürer · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Twelve Ages of a Man: The Second Three Ages (18-36), or Summer, by Bernard van Orley

The Twelve Ages of a Man: The Second Three Ages (18-36), or Summer

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, by Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587

Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules

Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi, Italian, 1527–1587 · 1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules Fighting the Centaurs, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Hercules, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Death of Hercules

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods

Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules Killing Cacus

Hercules Killing Cacus

Artist not stated in the record · 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1187759 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-06 06:35 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.