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 “Madonna and Child” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:30 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.
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child and St. John, Study after Francia; Madonna and Child with St. John, Study after Dossi; Madonna and Child with St. John, Bishop Saint, St. Appolonia; Madonna and Child in Niche, Study after Sculpture by Salvator Mundy, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and Child and St. John, Study after Francia; Madonna and Child with St. John, Study after Dossi; Madonna and Child with St. John, Bishop Saint, St. Appolonia; Madonna and Child in Niche, Study after Sculpture by Salvator Mundy

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and child, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and child

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Dosso Dossi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Dosso Dossi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Scroll, by Luca della Robbia

Madonna and Child with Scroll

Luca della Robbia · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, Sketches after Leonardo Da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo of Works in the Uffizi, Florence, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Madonna and Child, Sketches after Leonardo Da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo of Works in the Uffizi, Florence

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · October 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Mastelletta; Angel Gabriel Driving Lucifer from Heaven, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Mastelletta; Angel Gabriel Driving Lucifer from Heaven, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Madonna and Child

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Berlinghiero

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Madonna and Child

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1886–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Benvenuto di Giovanni

Madonna and Child

Benvenuto di Giovanni · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child

The Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child with St. Anna and Lamb, after Leonardo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and Child with St. Anna and Lamb, after Leonardo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

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. 4222 matched · 24 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. 1468612 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 2026-08-29 12:30 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.