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 Friedrich Bause” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 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.
Lucinde, by Johann Friedrich Bause

Lucinde

Johann Friedrich Bause · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Christian VIII

Christian VIII

Artist not stated in the record · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Christ, after Reni, by Johann Friedrich Bause

Head of Christ, after Reni

Johann Friedrich Bause · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Sample, by Johann Friedrich Netto, German

Sample

Johann Friedrich Netto, German · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid feeling the point of an arrow, by Johann Friedrich Bause

Cupid feeling the point of an arrow

Johann Friedrich Bause · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Celebrated Authors, by Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864

Celebrated Authors

Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Christiane Henriette Koch as Pelopia, by Johann Friedrich Bause

Portrait of Christiane Henriette Koch as Pelopia

Johann Friedrich Bause · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Monks in a Cloister

Monks in a Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · 1768-1839

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
Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate), by Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815

Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate)

Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815 · ca. 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Banishment of Hagar, by Johann Friedrich Overbeck

The Banishment of Hagar

Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1839–41

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Augustus the Strong, by Meissen Manufactory

Augustus the Strong

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713

Public domainThe Met
The Tombs, Halls of Justice, by Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel, German, born Hammer, Germany 1807-died Ammerland, Germany 1882

The Tombs, Halls of Justice

Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel, German, born Hammer, Germany 1807-died Ammerland, Germany 1882 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony, by Paul Preuning

Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony

Paul Preuning · ca. 1547–50

Public domainThe Met
Die Schlafenden Kinder, by Johann Leonhard Appold, German, born Dennenlohe, Germany 1809-died Nuremberg, Germany, 1858

Die Schlafenden Kinder

Johann Leonhard Appold, German, born Dennenlohe, Germany 1809-died Nuremberg, Germany, 1858 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin with Bird and Cat, by Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Harlequin with Bird and Cat

Johann Friedrich Eberlein · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Sparganium friesii Beurl.

Sparganium friesii Beurl.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasant Dancers, by Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Peasant Dancers

Johann Friedrich Eberlein · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese couple as incense containers, by Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Chinese couple as incense containers

Johann Friedrich Eberlein · 1745–50, after models of 1735

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

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. 279 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. 10974 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-26 19:59 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.