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 Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle” — 57 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:29 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.
Mary Magdalene reading in the desert, by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle

Mary Magdalene reading in the desert

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle · 1827–75

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
Madonna and Child, by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle

Madonna and Child

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle · 1830–60

Public domainThe Met
Sample, by Johann Friedrich Netto, German

Sample

Johann Friedrich Netto, German · 1798

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

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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

Celebrated Authors

Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richter's Werke (binder's title), by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Richter's Werke (binder's title)

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Title to the Monesteries

Title to the Monesteries

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garter, by Jean François de Troy

The Garter

Jean François de Troy · 1724

Public domainThe Met
Christian VIII

Christian VIII

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Declaration of Love, by Jean François de Troy

The Declaration of Love

Jean François de Troy · ca. 1724

Public domainThe Met
Two Goats and a Kid, by Johann Heinrich Roos, German, born Otterberg, Germany 1631-died Frankfurt, Germany 1685

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos, German, born Otterberg, Germany 1631-died Frankfurt, Germany 1685

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
Monks in a Cloister

Monks in a Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · 1768-1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia

Center table

Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

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
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

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
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, by Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

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
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Carl Ludwig Fernow

Carl Ludwig Fernow

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 25212 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 2026-09-06 16:29 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.