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 “Male Monkey, Straddling Frame in Prayer” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 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 Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Male Monkey, Straddling Frame in Prayer

Male Monkey, Straddling Frame in Prayer

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Two Snuffbox Lid Designs, by G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs

G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring', by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring'

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Female Monkey in Rococo Dress

Female Monkey in Rococo Dress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Pink, by Hans Memling

Young Woman with a Pink

Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1723–24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tears of Saint Peter, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Tears of Saint Peter

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · ca. 1612–13

Public domainThe Met
Two Snuffbox Lid Designs, by G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs

G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Singeries Amouresuses, Plate 2, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719

Singeries Amouresuses, Plate 2

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648–1719 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Te igitur et Evangile, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Te igitur et Evangile

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Male Monkey with tambourine

Male Monkey with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
America, by Beauvais

America

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; settee frame second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Aotus trivirgatus

Aotus trivirgatus

Artist not stated in the record

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 · 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. 7462351 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-03 17:44 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.