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. 23 shown for “Johann Georg Libigo” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 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.
Saint Matthew, by Johann Georg Libigo

Saint Matthew

Johann Georg Libigo · late 17th–early 18th century

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

Celebrated Authors

Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mark

Saint Mark

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page "Calligraphia Latina," in Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nomenclatione..., by Johann Caspar Schwab, German, 1727 - after 1810

Title Page "Calligraphia Latina," in Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nomenclatione...

Johann Caspar Schwab, German, 1727 - after 1810 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partisan of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Partisan of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800

George Washington

Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, 1742 - 1800 · c. 1775-80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partisan of Johann Georg I of Saxony (reigned 1611–56)

Partisan of Johann Georg I of Saxony (reigned 1611–56)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Design for a panel Representing the Choleric Temperament, by Johann Georg Bergmüller, German, 1688 - 1762

Design for a panel Representing the Choleric Temperament

Johann Georg Bergmüller, German, 1688 - 1762 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1680

Public domainThe Met
Johann Christian Wiegleb

Johann Christian Wiegleb

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1680

Public domainThe Met
Johannes Vollandt Apothecte

Johannes Vollandt Apothecte

Artist not stated in the record · 1646

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria, by Isidor Canevale

Boiserie from the Palais Paar, 30 Wollzeile, Vienna, Austria

Isidor Canevale · ca. 1765–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Johann Christian Preis

Johann Christian Preis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amusement at the Court, by Johann Georg Platzer

Amusement at the Court

Johann Georg Platzer · ca. 1738

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of Johann Georg I of Saxony (1585–1656) as administrator of the bishopric of Meresburg

Halberd of Johann Georg I of Saxony (1585–1656) as administrator of the bishopric of Meresburg

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1609

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword, by Johann Georg Klett

Hunting Sword

Johann Georg Klett · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

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

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

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. 564 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 194267 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:22 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.