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 the Saint Catherine Legend” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:07 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.
Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome, by Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome

Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

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
Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

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
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
St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

St. Catherine confounding scholars before Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796), by Johan Adolph Grecke

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)

Johan Adolph Grecke · 1786

Public domainThe Met
St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

St. Catherine brought to Emperor Maxentius by her jailors

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve, by Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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
Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Knights confessing their Christianity to Emperor Maxentius

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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
Study for a Painting: The Decapitation of Saint Catherine

Study for a Painting: The Decapitation of Saint Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine

Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

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
Saint Catherine in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876

Saint Catherine in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1833

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

Pair of sauceboats

Pierre-Adrien Dachery · 1768–75

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Catherine; St. John the Baptist, after Guercino; St. George and the Dragon, After Alessandro Tiarini; Two Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine; St. John the Baptist, after Guercino; St. George and the Dragon, After Alessandro Tiarini; Two Putti

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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. 2481 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. 3007646 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-01 02:07 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.