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 “Microspora loefgrenii f. minor N.Wille in Collins et al.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:32 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.
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Microspora loefgrenii f. minor N.Wille in Collins et al.

Microspora loefgrenii f. minor N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Microspora loefgrenii f. minor N.Wille in Collins et al.

Microspora loefgrenii f. minor N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Pithophora varia N.Wille in Collins et al.

Pithophora varia N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Pithophora varia N.Wille in Collins et al.

Pithophora varia N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1907

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
Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Ulvella wittrockii (N.Wille) R. Nielsen et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Hieronymus Bosch

The Adoration of the Magi

Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Ulva californica N.Wille in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1973

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7462944 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-10 18:32 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.