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 “Master of Saint Severin” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 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.
Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard exhorts the sick in body to enter his church with their spirits, in doing so returning to find their infirmities healed (one of two), by Master of Saint Severin

Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard exhorts the sick in body to enter his church with their spirits, in doing so returning to find their infirmities healed (one of two)

Master of Saint Severin · after 1535

Public domainThe Met
La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy, by Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Bartholomew and Simon, by Master of Saint Francis

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

Public domainThe Met
Madonna, by Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d.

Madonna

Master of Serumido, Italian, n.d. · ca. 1500-1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo, by Master of Saint Augustine

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo

Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Saint-Séverin

Saint-Séverin

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of sauceboats, by Pierre-Adrien Dachery

Pair of sauceboats

Pierre-Adrien Dachery · 1768–75

Public domainThe Met
Saint-Séverin

Saint-Séverin

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Saint-Séverin

Saint-Séverin

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

Public domainThe Met
Saint-Séverin

Saint-Séverin

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Santiago, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

Santiago

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
San Juan Nepomuceno, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Juan Nepomuceno

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael, by Master of Belmonte

Saint Michael

Master of Belmonte · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Old Italian Masters, by Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Old Italian Masters

Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

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. 1596 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. 2885300 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 08:39 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.