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 “Jahangir Visiting a Holy Man” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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.
Jahangir Visiting a Holy Man

Jahangir Visiting a Holy Man

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Mughal Prince Parvez and a Holy Man

The Mughal Prince Parvez and a Holy Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Lady with a Portrait of Jahangir, by Unidentified

Lady with a Portrait of Jahangir

Unidentified · ca. 1603

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jahangir, by Unidentified

Portrait of Jahangir

Unidentified · ca. 1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Hours, by Simon Bening

Book of Hours

Simon Bening · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca .1595–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

The Holy Family

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Visit to Holy Man by Prince Salim (Jahangir as a Youth?)

Visit to Holy Man by Prince Salim (Jahangir as a Youth?)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated youth, by Abu'l Hasan (born 1588 or 1589)

Seated youth

Abu'l Hasan (born 1588 or 1589) · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

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
The Cloisters Apocalypse

The Cloisters Apocalypse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330

Public domainThe Met
Sermon of a Holy Abbot, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Sermon of a Holy Abbot

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Padarath

"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Padarath · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with John the Baptist, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Holy Family with John the Baptist

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Studies for Holy Figures

Studies for Holy Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Raja Gaj Singh of Marwar, by Unidentified

Raja Gaj Singh of Marwar

Unidentified · 17th century

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. 44 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. 1800069 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 11:38 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.