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. 15 shown for “Maria” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:22 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.
Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony van Dyck

Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Cardinalis cardinalis mariae

Cardinalis cardinalis mariae

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina

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

Public domainThe Met
Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Cardinalis cardinalis mariae

Cardinalis cardinalis mariae

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc., by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · 1508

Public domainThe Met
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Public domainThe Met
Empress Maria (1520–1603), by Antonio Abondio

Empress Maria (1520–1603)

Antonio Abondio · 1575

Public domainThe Met
Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Santa Maria della Salute, by Francesco Guardi

Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi · mid- to late 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Feroni (1699–1767), by André Jean Lebrun

Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Feroni (1699–1767)

André Jean Lebrun · ca. 1767

Public domainThe Met
Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780), by Jean-Baptiste Nini

Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780)

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Livre de Desseins De Jouaillerie Et Bijouterie, by Maria

Livre de Desseins De Jouaillerie Et Bijouterie

Maria · 1740–75

Public domainThe Met
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. 4807 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 37769 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 2026-08-27 12:22 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.