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. 23 shown for “Holy Woman” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 09:58 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.
Holy Woman, by Master of Rimini

Holy Woman

Master of Rimini · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series

Christ on the Cross (The Crucifixion), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Woman

Holy Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Mariano Rossi, Italian, 1731–1807

The Holy Family

Mariano Rossi, Italian, 1731–1807 · ca. 1730–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin or Holy Woman

Virgin or Holy Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman, by Lorenzo Mosca

Woman

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies for Holy Figures

Studies for Holy Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Old Woman, by Orazio Borgianni

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Public domainThe Met
Orator Henley Christening a Child

Orator Henley Christening a Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1786-1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Shepherds, by Jacob Jordaens

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Altarpiece: the Madonna Worshipped by Saints and, Possibly, Donors

Study for an Altarpiece: the Madonna Worshipped by Saints and, Possibly, Donors

Artist not stated in the record · 1530–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Profile of a Woman's Head, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Profile of a Woman's Head

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian, by Kasebier, Gertrude

Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian

Kasebier, Gertrude · ca 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bible, The Book of Psalms, by Company of Stationers

The Bible, The Book of Psalms

Company of Stationers · ca. 1649

Public domainThe Met
Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian, by Kasebier, Gertrude

Sitting Holy, Sioux Indian

Kasebier, Gertrude · ca 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study Head of a Young Woman, by Anthony van Dyck

Study Head of a Young Woman

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20

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. 119 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 38438 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 09:58 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.