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. 20 shown for “Hermitage Painter” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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.
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Hermitage Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Hermitage Painter · ca. 590–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Campanula rotundifolia L.

Campanula rotundifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with Saint Anne, by French Painter

Holy Family with Saint Anne

French Painter · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Campanula rotundifolia L.

Campanula rotundifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Campanula rotundifolia L.

Campanula rotundifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel

Camel

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Hermitage at Vesuvius, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Hermitage at Vesuvius

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Domenico Fetti

Salvator Mundi

Domenico Fetti · ca. 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
The Hermitage--Tennessee, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

The Hermitage--Tennessee

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Sturnira lilium

Sturnira lilium

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana corymbifera Kirk

Gentiana corymbifera Kirk

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1949 to 27 Feb 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Artibeus jamaicensis

Artibeus jamaicensis

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau

Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Public domainThe Met
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. 250 matched · 24 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. 13650 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.