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 Peter Müller” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:27 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.
Plate with crest of Landsberg-Vehlen, by Johann Peter Müller

Plate with crest of Landsberg-Vehlen

Johann Peter Müller · 1755–57

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Plate 2 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Plate 2 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer

Peter Paul Rubens · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Helmet

Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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
Realto Bridge, Court of Justice, Public German Warehouse, by John Bowles, British, active 1724 - 1756

Realto Bridge, Court of Justice, Public German Warehouse

John Bowles, British, active 1724 - 1756 · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Charles II, by Johannes Faber, 1684 - 1756

Charles II

Johannes Faber, 1684 - 1756 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Chara canescens Loisel.

Chara canescens Loisel.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia montana Bruch & Schimp.

Grimmia montana Bruch & Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Peter, by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)

Saint Peter

Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

Public domainThe Met
Bryum botteri C. Mohr

Bryum botteri C. Mohr

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Acheloüs, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Ode on the Spring, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Ode on the Spring

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Pseudo-Seneca, by Peter Paul Rubens

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens · 1600–1626

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Title Page

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Hymn to Adversity, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Hymn to Adversity

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint Peter

Plaque with Saint Peter

Artist not stated in the record · 550–600

Public domainThe Met
Ode on the Spring, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Ode on the Spring

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

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
Junggesellen - Leiden or Bachelor from Leiden, by Hesse, Johann Friederich

Junggesellen - Leiden or Bachelor from Leiden

Hesse, Johann Friederich · n.d.

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. 471 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. 42576 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 2026-09-01 13:27 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.