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 “Ignacio de León y Escosura” — 53 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:20 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.
Yankees trying to be Turkish from my album - Esquisses at the Centenial [sic] Leon y Escosura, by Ignacio de León y Escosura

Yankees trying to be Turkish from my album - Esquisses at the Centenial [sic] Leon y Escosura

Ignacio de León y Escosura · 1876 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus albiflorus Freytag & Debouck

Phaseolus albiflorus Freytag & Debouck

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Auction Sale in Clinton Hall, New York, 1876, by Ignacio de León y Escosura

Auction Sale in Clinton Hall, New York, 1876

Ignacio de León y Escosura · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus albiflorus Freytag & Debouck

Phaseolus albiflorus Freytag & Debouck

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haddon Hall, by Ignacio de León y Escosura

Haddon Hall

Ignacio de León y Escosura · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Triniochloa stipoides (Kunth) Hitchc.

Triniochloa stipoides (Kunth) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Piptochaetium virescens (Kunth) Parodi

Piptochaetium virescens (Kunth) Parodi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Matayba guianensis Aubl.

Matayba guianensis Aubl.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus maculatifolius Freytag & Debouck

Phaseolus maculatifolius Freytag & Debouck

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Man and Horse

Armor for Man and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · man's armor, ca. 1570 and later; horse armor, ca. 1580–90 and later

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus maculatifolius Freytag & Debouck

Phaseolus maculatifolius Freytag & Debouck

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musette, by Forquin

Musette

Forquin · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature camelid effigy, by Inca artist(s)

Miniature camelid effigy

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered vessel with monkey, by Chimú artist(s)

Double-chambered vessel with monkey

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus zimapanensis A. Delgado

Phaseolus zimapanensis A. Delgado

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drum (Teponaztli)

Drum (Teponaztli)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Phaseolus pedicellatus Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figurine

Male Figurine

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533

Public domainThe Met
Stemodia durantifolia (L.) Sw.

Stemodia durantifolia (L.) Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/3/85

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 1 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. 843588 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 10:20 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.