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. 20 shown for “Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:30 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.
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
Aeneas Saving Anchises

Aeneas Saving Anchises

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

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
Print

Print

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Putti and Manticore

Grotesque with Putti and Manticore

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1532

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Dolphins and Winged Lions, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Grotesque with Dolphins and Winged Lions

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1532

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick (one of a pair), by Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court)

Candlestick (one of a pair)

Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court) · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1532

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick (one of a pair), by Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court)

Candlestick (one of a pair)

Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court) · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Coronation of the Virgin, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Coronation of the Virgin

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1530–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Venus Complains to Jupiter, by Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562

Venus Complains to Jupiter

Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · mid-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Clara Fasano, by Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946

Portrait of Clara Fasano

Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946 · 1943

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
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

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. 293 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3012454 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 10:30 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.