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. 12 shown for “Israel Silvestre” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:10 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

View of the Garden Terrace of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, by Israel Silvestre

View of the Garden Terrace of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli

Israel Silvestre · 1643–44

Public domainThe Met
A man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, frontispiece from "Views of Italy" (Vues d'Italie), by Israel Silvestre

A man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, frontispiece from "Views of Italy" (Vues d'Italie)

Israel Silvestre · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Vues de France et d'Italie (binder's title), by Israel Silvestre

Vues de France et d'Italie (binder's title)

Israel Silvestre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tempio del Sole (Temple of Cybele in the Piazza della Bocca della Verità), by Israel Silvestre

Tempio del Sole (Temple of Cybele in the Piazza della Bocca della Verità)

Israel Silvestre · ca. 1640–91

Public domainThe Met
Fountain with a Rock Arch in a Park, by Israel Silvestre

Fountain with a Rock Arch in a Park

Israel Silvestre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
View of the Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, with the Church of the Holy Innocents beyond, by Israel Silvestre

View of the Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, with the Church of the Holy Innocents beyond

Israel Silvestre · ca. 1636–91

Public domainThe Met
View of Caprarola, from "Fifteen Views of Italy and France", by Israel Silvestre

View of Caprarola, from "Fifteen Views of Italy and France"

Israel Silvestre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
View of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, by Israel Silvestre

View of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence

Israel Silvestre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Château de Versailles seen from the forecourt, from Chalcographie du Louvre, Vol. 22, by Israel Silvestre

Château de Versailles seen from the forecourt, from Chalcographie du Louvre, Vol. 22

Israel Silvestre · 1682, reprinted ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
View of the Capitoline Hill in Rome from the East, by Israel Silvestre

View of the Capitoline Hill in Rome from the East

Israel Silvestre · mid-17th–late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
View of the Forum Romanum with the Arch of Septimius Severus from the East, by Israel Silvestre

View of the Forum Romanum with the Arch of Septimius Severus from the East

Israel Silvestre · mid-17th–late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
View of the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in the foreground a cross on a stepped platform and a freestanding domed building, by Israel Silvestre

View of the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in the foreground a cross on a stepped platform and a freestanding domed building

Israel Silvestre · ca. 1636–91

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. 57 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:10 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.