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 “Joseph Böhm” — 51 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.
Grand Piano, by Joseph Böhm

Grand Piano

Joseph Böhm · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Placenticeras meeki (Bohm, 1898)

Placenticeras meeki (Bohm, 1898)

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Fertility (Recto), by Jacob Jordaens

Allegory of Fertility (Recto)

Jacob Jordaens · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Placenticeras meeki (Bohm, 1898)

Placenticeras meeki (Bohm, 1898)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome extracting a thorn from the lion's paw, by Giovanni Battista Palumba

Saint Jerome extracting a thorn from the lion's paw

Giovanni Battista Palumba · 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by Max Bohm, born Cleveland, OH 1868-died Provincetown, MA 1923

Untitled

Max Bohm, born Cleveland, OH 1868-died Provincetown, MA 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottages and Farm Buildings with a Man Sketching, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Cottages and Farm Buildings with a Man Sketching

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1645

Public domainThe Met
Veronica polita Fr.

Veronica polita Fr.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/2/83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leda and the Swan set in a landscape, by Giovanni Battista Palumba

Leda and the Swan set in a landscape

Giovanni Battista Palumba · 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Carex hirta L.

Carex hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/7/95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of an Old Man with a Flowing Beard: the Head Bowed Forward: Left Shoulder Unshaded, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Bust of an Old Man with a Flowing Beard: the Head Bowed Forward: Left Shoulder Unshaded

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1630

Public domainThe Met
Inula sp.

Inula sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A triton family in the sea, with a mother and child seated on the back of a half-man, half-sea monster with a child blowing on a conch shell on his shoulders, by Giovanni Battista Palumba

A triton family in the sea, with a mother and child seated on the back of a half-man, half-sea monster with a child blowing on a conch shell on his shoulders

Giovanni Battista Palumba · 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Rosa sepium Thuill.

Rosa sepium Thuill.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/7/86 to 9/9/86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith, looking towards the right, seated nude atop the dead body of Holofernes, with a sword in her right hand and the head of Holofernes in her left hand, by Barthel Beham

Judith, looking towards the right, seated nude atop the dead body of Holofernes, with a sword in her right hand and the head of Holofernes in her left hand

Barthel Beham · 1525

Public domainThe Met
Ancient Seaport, by Max Bohm, born Cleveland, OH 1868-died Provincetown, MA 1923

Ancient Seaport

Max Bohm, born Cleveland, OH 1868-died Provincetown, MA 1923 · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Left, Head of a Satyr, by Peter Paul Rubens

Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Left, Head of a Satyr

Peter Paul Rubens · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Dicranodontium aristatum Schimp.

Dicranodontium aristatum Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Views of Vienna, by Anton Kothgasser

Views of Vienna

Anton Kothgasser · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Paludella squarrosa (Hedw.) Brid.

Paludella squarrosa (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 320 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens julianus (Savi ex DC.) Schimp.

Fissidens julianus (Savi ex DC.) Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle

Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1882

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 84409 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.