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 “Master Marcus” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:09 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.
Church Bell, by Master Marcus

Church Bell

Master Marcus · ca. 1411

Public domainThe Met
Noumeaella rehderi

Noumeaella rehderi

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Officia M.T.C. Von den tugentsamen ämptern, by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Officia M.T.C. Von den tugentsamen ämptern

Marcus Tullius Cicero · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Broadside for the Black Star Line

Broadside for the Black Star Line

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm, by Gaetano Gandolfi

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm

Gaetano Gandolfi · 1734–1802

Public domainThe Met
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Marcus Alonzo Hanna

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laura Dianti with a Black Page, by Aegidius Sadeler II

Laura Dianti with a Black Page

Aegidius Sadeler II · 1600–1627

Public domainThe Met
Marcus Loew, by Henry Major, 1889 - 1948

Marcus Loew

Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925-30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Pietro Lorenzetti

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Pietro Lorenzetti · ca. 1342

Public domainThe Met
Marcus Daly, by Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947

Marcus Daly

Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947 · c. 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabasset

Cabasset

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90

Public domainThe Met
An Eagle Preaching to the Animals, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

An Eagle Preaching to the Animals

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, by Rembrandt

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Rembrandt

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Wind Instruments and a Drum, by Pomponio Amalteo

Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Wind Instruments and a Drum

Pomponio Amalteo · 1505–88

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Stringed Instruments, by Pomponio Amalteo

Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Stringed Instruments

Pomponio Amalteo · 1505–88

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Wind Instruments, by Pomponio Amalteo

Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Wind Instruments

Pomponio Amalteo · 1505–88

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. 62 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. 17509 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:09 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.