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 “Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:16 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.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master

Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master

Artist not stated in the record

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
Santiago, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

Santiago

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang, by Sesson Shūkei

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang

Sesson Shūkei · ca. 1555–61

Public domainThe Met
San Juan Nepomuceno, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Juan Nepomuceno

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Christ Child, by Master of Frankfurt

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Master of Frankfurt · possibly 1496–1502

Public domainThe Met
Edward P. Thorn Owney tag

Edward P. Thorn Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
San Jose, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Jose

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth", by Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919

Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth"

Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919 · ca. 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Master of the Female Half-Lengths

Virgin and Child

Master of the Female Half-Lengths · ca. 1525–50

Public domainThe Met
The Country Store, by Edward Lamson Henry, born Charleston, SC 1841-died Ellenville, NY 1919

The Country Store

Edward Lamson Henry, born Charleston, SC 1841-died Ellenville, NY 1919 · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perfume bottle (one of six) (part of a set), by Louis Mailly

Perfume bottle (one of six) (part of a set)

Louis Mailly · 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Clara Fasano, by Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946

Portrait of Clara Fasano

Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946 · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Christ Appearing to Mary, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Christ Appearing to Mary

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arrival in Bethlehem, by Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Madame Ferrebault's Prairie, above Prairie du Chien, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Madame Ferrebault's Prairie, above Prairie du Chien

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Cautivo de la Virgen de la Merced, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

Cautivo de la Virgen de la Merced

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

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. 616 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. 7484720 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 15:16 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.