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 “Leslie speaker cabinet owned by James Brown” — 58 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:22 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.
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Leslie speaker cabinet owned by James Brown

Leslie speaker cabinet owned by James Brown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
President James Buchanan and his cabinet, by McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860

President James Buchanan and his cabinet

McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by David H. Anderson, 1827 - after 1906

James Gillespie Blaine

David H. Anderson, 1827 - after 1906 · c. 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

James Gillespie Blaine

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
James G. Blaine, by Thure de Thulstrup, 1848 - 1930

James G. Blaine

Thure de Thulstrup, 1848 - 1930 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Adonis, by Peter Paul Rubens

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by Unidentified Artist

James Gillespie Blaine

Unidentified Artist · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
Signed guitar and case owned by James Brown

Signed guitar and case owned by James Brown

Artist not stated in the record · 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Black cape owned by James Brown, by Unidentified

Black cape owned by James Brown

Unidentified · 1970-1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares, by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

James Gillespie Blaine

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by Julius Mayer, 1857 - 1884?

James Gillespie Blaine

Julius Mayer, 1857 - 1884? · c. 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso), by Agostino Carracci

Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso)

Agostino Carracci · 1600–02

Public domainThe Met
James Gillespie Blaine, by J. H. Bufford's Sons Lithography Co., active 1870 - 1890

James Gillespie Blaine

J. H. Bufford's Sons Lithography Co., active 1870 - 1890 · 1884

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 678110 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-04 21:22 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.