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 “Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:48 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.
Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis, by Hendrick Goudt

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis

Hendrick Goudt · 1612

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis

Jupiter and Mercury as Guests of Philemon and Baucis

Artist not stated in the record · 1612

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter and Mercury reveal themselves to Philemon and Baucis, by Elie-Honoré Montagny

Jupiter and Mercury reveal themselves to Philemon and Baucis

Elie-Honoré Montagny · 1809

Public domainThe Met
Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis, by Anonymous

Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis

Anonymous · ca. 1627–70

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam

Jupiter Sending Mercury to Priam

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Baucis and Philemon, by Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Baucis and Philemon

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
Olympus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Olympus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Reign of Jupiter

The Reign of Jupiter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

Public domainThe Met
Pillars of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pillars of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 7-13, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1810-1823

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. 30 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. 3116122 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 11:48 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.