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 “Ludwig Theodor Zöllner” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 14:51 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 Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony, by Ludwig Theodor Zöllner

Portrait of Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony

Ludwig Theodor Zöllner · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Llagunoa glandulosa (Hook. & Arn.) G. Don

Llagunoa glandulosa (Hook. & Arn.) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony, by Ludwig Theodor Zöllner

Portrait of Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony

Ludwig Theodor Zöllner · after 1829

Public domainThe Met
Gevuina avellana Molina

Gevuina avellana Molina

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony, by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein

Portrait of Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein · 1827

Public domainThe Met
Distichlis sp.

Distichlis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506), by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1519

Public domainThe Met
Pleocarphus revolutus D. Don

Pleocarphus revolutus D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome, by Karl Theodor von Piloty

Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome

Karl Theodor von Piloty · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Mutisia decurrens Cav. var. decurrens

Mutisia decurrens Cav. var. decurrens

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Anisomeria littoralis (Poepp. & Endl.) Moq.

Anisomeria littoralis (Poepp. & Endl.) Moq.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Fabiana bryoides Phil.

Fabiana bryoides Phil.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child

Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Public domainThe Met
Jarava leptostachya (Griseb.) F. Rojas

Jarava leptostachya (Griseb.) F. Rojas

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Melica paulsenii Phil.

Melica paulsenii Phil.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint Paul from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Cinnagrostis sp.

Cinnagrostis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, by Leonardo da Vinci

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Leonardo da Vinci · 1510–13

Public domainThe Met
Tillandsia virescens Ruiz & Pav.

Tillandsia virescens Ruiz & Pav.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1974

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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 10326 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 14:51 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.