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. 18 shown for “Michele Todini” — 48 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 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.
Harpsichord, by Michele Todini

Harpsichord

Michele Todini · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Michel Fokine, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Michel Fokine

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum . . ., by Athanasius Kircher

Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum . . .

Athanasius Kircher · 1673

Public domainThe Met
Jean Michel Fortier, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Michel Fortier

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

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
Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait, by Louis Michel Eilshemius, 4 Feb 1864 - 29 Dec 1941

Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 4 Feb 1864 - 29 Dec 1941 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Resurrection, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

The Resurrection

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
Col. Michel Fortier II, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Col. Michel Fortier II

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
Louis Michel Eilshemius, by Joseph Stella, 13 Jun 1877 - 5 Nov 1946

Louis Michel Eilshemius

Joseph Stella, 13 Jun 1877 - 5 Nov 1946 · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Betrayal of Christ, by Bartolomeo di Tommaso

The Betrayal of Christ

Bartolomeo di Tommaso · ca. 1445–50

Public domainThe Met
Col. Michel Fortier II, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Col. Michel Fortier II

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Michel Angelique Brouard, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Michel Angelique Brouard

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Louis Michel Le peletier de Saint-Fargeau

Portrait of Louis Michel Le peletier de Saint-Fargeau

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allophylus racemosus Sw.

Allophylus racemosus Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Townspeople in Mont St. Michel and Vitré, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketches of Townspeople in Mont St. Michel and Vitré

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · January 20, 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis subaequiglumis Renvoize

Eragrostis subaequiglumis Renvoize

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Undershirt worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)

Undershirt worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)

Artist not stated in the record · 2009

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5826 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 2026-08-27 13:13 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.