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 “Interior of the New Concert Hall, Venice” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:24 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.
Desk (Secretary)

Desk (Secretary)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Interior of the New Concert Hall, Venice

Interior of the New Concert Hall, Venice

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Coupe et Profil de la Salle de Concert pris sur la longueur, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Coupe et Profil de la Salle de Concert pris sur la longueur

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Sebastian, by Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

Saint Sebastian

Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566

Public domainThe Met
Interior of Westminster Hall, by Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940

Interior of Westminster Hall

Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, by Francesco Guardi

The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765–68

Public domainThe Met
A View of Venice, by Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926

A View of Venice

Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
Marxism and Negro Liberation

Marxism and Negro Liberation

Artist not stated in the record · 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
The Birth of Blues, by Unidentified

The Birth of Blues

Unidentified · 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York, from Harper's Weekly, February 20, 1869, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York, from Harper's Weekly, February 20, 1869

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
The Ball in Honor of President Lincoln in the Great Hall at the Patent Office in Washington, by Illustrated London News, founded 1842

The Ball in Honor of President Lincoln in the Great Hall at the Patent Office in Washington

Illustrated London News, founded 1842 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield, by Girolamo da Treviso

Shield

Girolamo da Treviso · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior, by Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Italian, 1751 - 1831

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Italian, 1751 - 1831 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Henry H. Hall

Henry H. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Antonio Canova, by Antonio Fabris

Tomb of Antonio Canova

Antonio Fabris · 1827

Public domainThe Met
Henry H. Hall

Henry H. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 563 matched · 24 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. 3187866 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 18:24 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.