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 “Leonardo Alenza y Nieto” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:59 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.
Ex Cathedra (Ex Catedra), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

Ex Cathedra (Ex Catedra)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Arenaria tetraquetra subsp. murcica (Font Quer) Favarger & G. Nieto

Arenaria tetraquetra subsp. murcica (Font Quer) Favarger & G. Nieto

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/7/89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
He Looks and Doesn't Recognize Himself (Se mira y no se ve), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

He Looks and Doesn't Recognize Himself (Se mira y no se ve)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Taraxacum obovatum (Willd.) DC.

Taraxacum obovatum (Willd.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
He Will Not Laugh (Y el no se rie), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

He Will Not Laugh (Y el no se rie)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Palicourea crocea (Sw.) Schult.

Palicourea crocea (Sw.) Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
He Has Been Decorated (Y esta' Condecorado!), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

He Has Been Decorated (Y esta' Condecorado!)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea sp.

Ouratea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Song (El aria final), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

The Last Song (El aria final)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia sp.

Ludwigia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Long Live the Chains! (Vivan las caenas [cadenas]), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

Long Live the Chains! (Vivan las caenas [cadenas])

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora albescens (Miq.) Kük.

Rhynchospora albescens (Miq.) Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
It's Raining Elves (Llueven duendes), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

It's Raining Elves (Llueven duendes)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora trispicata (Nees) Schrad. ex Steud.

Rhynchospora trispicata (Nees) Schrad. ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Greed Breaks the Bag (La codicia rompe el saco), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

Greed Breaks the Bag (La codicia rompe el saco)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora hirta (Nees) Boeckeler

Rhynchospora hirta (Nees) Boeckeler

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lost Labor (Trabajo perdido), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

Lost Labor (Trabajo perdido)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Staurogyne leptocaulis Leonard, nom. illeg.

Staurogyne leptocaulis Leonard, nom. illeg.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
They Strut About Elegantly (Lindamente se pavonean), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

They Strut About Elegantly (Lindamente se pavonean)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Utricularia cucullata A. St.-Hil. & Girard

Utricularia cucullata A. St.-Hil. & Girard

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
There Was No Business (No encontraron avio), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

There Was No Business (No encontraron avio)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Aeschynomene filosa Mart. ex Benth.

Aeschynomene filosa Mart. ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At Last She Sees Clearly (Ya ve claro), by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

At Last She Sees Clearly (Ya ve claro)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto · 1807–45

Public domainThe Met
Ilex discolor Hemsl.

Ilex discolor Hemsl.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1963

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. 31 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. 267260 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 03:59 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.