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 “Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm” — 62 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 14:52 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.
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm, by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Carl Ludwig Fernow

Carl Ludwig Fernow

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carl Ernst Christoph Hess, by Ludwig Emil Grimm

Carl Ernst Christoph Hess

Ludwig Emil Grimm

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church, by Ludwig Emil Grimm

Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church

Ludwig Emil Grimm · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Rubus gracilis Roxb.

Rubus gracilis Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/7/97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12), by Giovanni de' Vecchi

Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12)

Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Maid Asleep, by Johannes Vermeer

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Crucifixion

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Two Heads, by Peter Paul Rubens

Study of Two Heads

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1609

Public domainThe Met
Stellaria alsine Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1926

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 60288 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-06 14:52 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.