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. 15 shown for “Kiss Painter” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:12 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.
Fragmentary terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Kiss Painter

Fragmentary terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Kiss Painter · ca. 510–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame, by Unidentified

Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame

Unidentified · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Stolen Kiss, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Stolen Kiss

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Ko-rak-koo-kiss, a Towoccono Warrior, by John Mix Stanley, born Canandaigua, NY 1814-died Detroit, MI 1872

Ko-rak-koo-kiss, a Towoccono Warrior

John Mix Stanley, born Canandaigua, NY 1814-died Detroit, MI 1872 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Poseidon Painter

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Poseidon Painter · ca. 510–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button with the saying "Kiss Me I'm Black"

Pinback button with the saying "Kiss Me I'm Black"

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Mandylion, by The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow

Triptych with the Mandylion

The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Angels, by Bernard van Orley

Virgin and Child with Angels

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Nessus Abducting Dejanira, by Bertel Thorvaldsen

Nessus Abducting Dejanira

Bertel Thorvaldsen · modeled 1814–15, carved 1821–23 or 1826

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · 1475–99

Public domainThe Met
Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco, by Jean-François Montessuy

Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco

Jean-François Montessuy · 1843

Public domainThe Met
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 13269 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 02:12 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.