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. 15 shown for “Matthias Stom” — 43 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:32 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.
Old Woman Praying, by Matthias Stom

Old Woman Praying

Matthias Stom · late 1630s or early 1640s

Public domainThe Met
STOM B

STOM B

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cain fleeing after having slain Abel, by Matthias Stom

Cain fleeing after having slain Abel

Matthias Stom · ca. 1640–60

Public domainThe Met
Matthias Bruen and Benjamin Richards, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Matthias Bruen and Benjamin Richards

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Matthias and Thomas Bordley, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Matthias and Thomas Bordley

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bartholomew and Saint Matthias, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Saint Bartholomew and Saint Matthias

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aplonis metallica nitida

Aplonis metallica nitida

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myzomela nigrita hades

Myzomela nigrita hades

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis cilianensis (Bellardi) Vignolo ex Janch.

Eragrostis cilianensis (Bellardi) Vignolo ex Janch.

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler

Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 339 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 08:32 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.