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. 23 shown for “Master of the Franciscan Breviary” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:02 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.
Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Franciscan Breviary

Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Franciscan Breviary · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar Painting, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666

Project for an Altar Painting

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · 1700–50

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
Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - July, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix, by Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

Crucifix

Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia · 1370–75

Public domainThe Met
Water color; Performers of a Commedia dell'Arte, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Performers of a Commedia dell'Arte

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity, by Master of the Dominican Effigies

The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity

Master of the Dominican Effigies · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Tortula muralis

Tortula muralis

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.

Barbula unguiculata Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, by Master of Monte Oliveto

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Weissia viridula Hedw. ex Brid.

Weissia viridula Hedw. ex Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth var. stans

Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth var. stans

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Barbula vinealis Brid.

Barbula vinealis Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1954

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
Castilleja martinii Abrams

Castilleja martinii Abrams

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1957

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
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. 68 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. 2984656 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:02 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.