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. 17 shown for “Luigi Calamatta” — 45 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:23 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 a young girl, by Luigi Calamatta

Portrait of a young girl

Luigi Calamatta · 1832

Public domainThe Met
Male Nude, by Luigi Calamatta, Italian, 1802 - 1869

Male Nude

Luigi Calamatta, Italian, 1802 - 1869 · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of George Sand, by Luigi Calamatta

Portrait of George Sand

Luigi Calamatta · 1837

Public domainThe Met
E. Luigi Persico, by Eastman Johnson, 29 Jul 1824 - 5 Apr 1906

E. Luigi Persico

Eastman Johnson, 29 Jul 1824 - 5 Apr 1906 · c. 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Niccolò Paganini, by Luigi Calamatta

Portrait of Niccolò Paganini

Luigi Calamatta · 1830 (backdated "1818")

Public domainThe Met
Luigi Elena and Annibale Elena, by Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864

Luigi Elena and Annibale Elena

Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Sold to the Merchants, from "The Story of Joseph", by Georg Pencz

Joseph Sold to the Merchants, from "The Story of Joseph"

Georg Pencz · 1546

Public domainThe Met
Ugolino and His Sons, by Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829

Ugolino and His Sons

Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829 · 1814–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Deer Hunt with Bow and Arrow, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Deer Hunt with Bow and Arrow

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

Drawing

Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Indian Palace Garden for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Indian Palace Garden for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

Drawing

Luigi Garzi, Italian, born Pistoia, Italy 1638-died Rome Italy 1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luigi Carrara Oliver, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Luigi Carrara Oliver

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luigi XVI, by Unidentified

Luigi XVI

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XVI, Roi de France, by Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810

Louis XVI, Roi de France

Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Antoinette, Reine de France, by Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810

Marie Antoinette, Reine de France

Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, born Bassano, Italy 1765-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 468 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-05 05:23 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.