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 “John C. Wolf” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 17:44 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.
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window panel, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window panel

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window: First communion, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window: First communion

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
A proposed church, by John C. Wolf

A proposed church

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Floor plan, Episcopal church at Friendship, N.Y., by John C. Wolf

Floor plan, Episcopal church at Friendship, N.Y.

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Front entrance group stained glass windows, by John C. Wolf

Front entrance group stained glass windows

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Scabbard, by Wolf Paller

Dagger with Scabbard

Wolf Paller · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass: hall window, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass: hall window

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Mural design: Rowena, Cedric, Athelstane, by John C. Wolf

Mural design: Rowena, Cedric, Athelstane

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Christ and the Magdalen, by John C. Wolf

Christ and the Magdalen

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling light suggestions for a music room, by John C. Wolf

Ceiling light suggestions for a music room

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist, by C. C.

Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist

C. C. · ca. 1640, with 18th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window: Christ and Peter, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window: Christ and Peter

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window: Young Christ among the doctors, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window: Young Christ among the doctors

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

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. 8495 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1230753 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 17:44 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.