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 “Luis Alvarez Catalá” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:17 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.
The Cardinal's Reception, by Luis Alvarez Catalá

The Cardinal's Reception

Luis Alvarez Catalá · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Stachys coccinea Ortega

Stachys coccinea Ortega

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Stevia elatior Kunth

Stevia elatior Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum pauciflorum Kunth

Hypericum pauciflorum Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Sedum retusum Hemsl.

Sedum retusum Hemsl.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Peperomia campylotropa A.W. Hill

Peperomia campylotropa A.W. Hill

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Carrying the Cross

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1577–87

Public domainThe Met
Pleopeltis polylepis (Roem. ex Kunze) T. Moore

Pleopeltis polylepis (Roem. ex Kunze) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Workshop

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Workshop · ca. 1612–14

Public domainThe Met
Polypodium subpetiolatum Hook.

Polypodium subpetiolatum Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Segment of a Crozier Shaft

Segment of a Crozier Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Aleuritopteris farinosa (Forssk.) Fée

Aleuritopteris farinosa (Forssk.) Fée

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Myriopteris notholaenoides (Desv.) Grusz & Windham

Myriopteris notholaenoides (Desv.) Grusz & Windham

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child (from an group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Virgin and Child (from an group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Tigridia multiflora (Baker) Ravenna

Tigridia multiflora (Baker) Ravenna

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1934 to 30 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Salvia patens Cav.

Salvia patens Cav.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Salvia puberula Fernald

Salvia puberula Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1934 to 31 Jul 1934

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. 33 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. 30466 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 10:17 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.