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 “Johann Baptist Hagenauer” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:05 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.
Christ at the Column, by Johann Baptist Hagenauer

Christ at the Column

Johann Baptist Hagenauer · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Captain Robert Kermit, by Johann Baptist Hirschmann, German, born Bamberg, Germany 1770-died 1821

Portrait of Captain Robert Kermit

Johann Baptist Hirschmann, German, born Bamberg, Germany 1770-died 1821 · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Panel or Ceiling with The Virgin and Saints Interceding before Christ for the Souls of the Lost, by Johann Baptist Enderle

Design for a Wall Panel or Ceiling with The Virgin and Saints Interceding before Christ for the Souls of the Lost

Johann Baptist Enderle · 1771 or before

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint John the Baptist from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger, by Aelbert Bouts

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger

Aelbert Bouts · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Preaching of John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Breenbergh

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana verna L.

Gentiana verna L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/5/86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Polygala amarella Crantz

Polygala amarella Crantz

Artist not stated in the record · May 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, by Gustave Moreau

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Gustave Moreau · ca. 1876

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service, by Elias Adam

"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service

Elias Adam · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Diana, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Fountain with Diana

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegyptus Hodierna, Map of Egypt, by Johann Baptist Homann

Aegyptus Hodierna, Map of Egypt

Johann Baptist Homann · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

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

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

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. 152 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. 7723 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-29 01:05 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.