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 “Joseph Wagner” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:42 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, by Joseph Wagner

Plate

Joseph Wagner · 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Elements - Fire, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Elements - Fire

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoe-Black, by Joseph Wagner

Shoe-Black

Joseph Wagner · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Seasons - Autumn, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Autumn

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp-Lighter, by Joseph Wagner

Lamp-Lighter

Joseph Wagner · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Elements - Earth, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Elements - Earth

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Ruins, by Joseph Wagner

Landscape with Ruins

Joseph Wagner · ca. 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Seasons - Winter, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Winter

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Bridge, by Joseph Wagner

Landscape with Bridge

Joseph Wagner · ca. 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountainous landscape with herdsmen and cows, by Joseph Wagner

Mountainous landscape with herdsmen and cows

Joseph Wagner · ca. 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Elements - Air, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Elements - Air

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A schoolgirl and her music teacher looking at a sheet of music, by Joseph Wagner

A schoolgirl and her music teacher looking at a sheet of music

Joseph Wagner · 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Elements - Water, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Elements - Water

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Temple, by Joseph Wagner

Landscape with Temple

Joseph Wagner · ca. 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Four Seasons - Spring, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Spring

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Stanislaus Kostka holding the Christ child in his arms, by Joseph Wagner

Saint Stanislaus Kostka holding the Christ child in his arms

Joseph Wagner · 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Etchings by Amigoni, an Unknown Artist, and Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Album of Prints: Etchings by Amigoni, an Unknown Artist, and Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga holding a crucifix, with an angel holding a crown at left, by Joseph Wagner

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga holding a crucifix, with an angel holding a crown at left

Joseph Wagner · 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus filiformis (Sw.) W.H. Wagner

Phlegmariurus filiformis (Sw.) W.H. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Visitation (copy in reverse), by Joseph Wagner

Visitation (copy in reverse)

Joseph Wagner

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera orizabae W.L. Wagner

Oenothera orizabae W.L. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Saint Andrea Avellino in the presence of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint Stanislaus Kostka, by Joseph Wagner

The Death of Saint Andrea Avellino in the presence of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Joseph Wagner · 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera orizabae W.L. Wagner

Oenothera orizabae W.L. Wagner

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1903

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. 64 matched · 24 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. 96296 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-06 02:42 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.