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 “Juan González, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:17 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.
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity, by Juan González, 17th century

The Nativity

Juan González, 17th century · 1662

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray

Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist, by Juan Martínez Montañés

Saint John the Baptist

Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Amphilophium stamineum (Lam.) L.G. Lohmann

Amphilophium stamineum (Lam.) L.G. Lohmann

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin of Carmen and the Souls of Purgatory with St. Joseph and the Prophet Elijah, by Juan Francisco de Aguilera

The Virgin of Carmen and the Souls of Purgatory with St. Joseph and the Prophet Elijah

Juan Francisco de Aguilera · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson

Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain, by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Phacelia crenulata Torr. ex S. Watson

Phacelia crenulata Torr. ex S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray

Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doña Marianna Stampa Parravicina (born 1612), Condesa di Segrate, by Spanish Painter

Doña Marianna Stampa Parravicina (born 1612), Condesa di Segrate

Spanish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Spanish (Andalusian) Painter

Portrait of a Man

Spanish (Andalusian) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Bullfight in a Divided Ring

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray var. canescens

Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) A. Gray var. canescens

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 2019

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. 256 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 84723 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 22:17 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.