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. 19 shown for “Matthaeus Greuter” — 49 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:46 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.
Sancta Francisca de Pontainis Dicta Romana, by Matthaeus Greuter

Sancta Francisca de Pontainis Dicta Romana

Matthaeus Greuter · 1608

Public domainThe Met
Matthaeus Keller, Phat Macopaeus

Matthaeus Keller, Phat Macopaeus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb and Medals of Pope Sixtus V, by Matthaeus Greuter

Tomb and Medals of Pope Sixtus V

Matthaeus Greuter · 1630

Public domainThe Met
Callosciurus caniceps

Callosciurus caniceps

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, by Matthaeus Greuter

Allegory of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria

Matthaeus Greuter · mid 16th–mid 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of a Cardinal, by Matthaeus Greuter

Allegory of a Cardinal

Matthaeus Greuter · mid 16th–mid 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Ornament, by J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century

Designs for Rocaille Ornament

J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Racing in a Roman Hippodrome, by Matthaeus Greuter

Horse Racing in a Roman Hippodrome

Matthaeus Greuter · mid-16th–mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Ornament, by J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century

Designs for Rocaille Ornament

J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Twelve Labors of Hercules Statues in a Circular Garden, by Matthaeus Greuter

Allegory of the Twelve Labors of Hercules Statues in a Circular Garden

Matthaeus Greuter · mid 16th–mid 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Spring, from "The Four Seasons", by Matthaeus Greuter

Spring, from "The Four Seasons"

Matthaeus Greuter · 1589–1600

Public domainThe Met
Callosciurus caniceps

Callosciurus caniceps

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ presented to the people by Pilate, standing atop stairs at left with a crowd at right, by Matthaeus Greuter

Christ presented to the people by Pilate, standing atop stairs at left with a crowd at right

Matthaeus Greuter · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Leopoldamys sabanus

Leopoldamys sabanus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (spine title), by Giovanni Battista Costaguti the Elder

Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (spine title)

Giovanni Battista Costaguti the Elder · 1620–84

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Ornament, by J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century

Designs for Rocaille Ornament

J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Rocaille Ornament, by J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century

Designs for Rocaille Ornament

J. Matthaeus Schmahl, German, active 18th century · ca. 1719 – 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus pulviniformis Greuter

Dianthus pulviniformis Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dittrichia graveolens (L.) Greuter

Dittrichia graveolens (L.) Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1972

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1612 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 07:46 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.