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. 14 shown for “Mignot Painter” — 42 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 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.
Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top), by Mignot Painter

Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top)

Mignot Painter · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, by Nicolas Poussin

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

Nicolas Poussin · 1655

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Home of George Washington, by Unidentified Artist

Home of George Washington

Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winslow Homer, by Thomas A. Gray, active 1863

Winslow Homer

Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template

Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ipomoea lozani J.H. Painter

Ipomoea lozani J.H. Painter

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland), by Unidentified Artist

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Street Lamppost Letterbox

Street Lamppost Letterbox

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morkillia acuminata Rose & J.H. Painter

Morkillia acuminata Rose & J.H. Painter

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ipomoea ciervensis J.H. Painter

Ipomoea ciervensis J.H. Painter

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1905

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12885 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 06:30 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.