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 “Minerva and Mercury” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.
Scent bottle with Minerva and Mercury

Scent bottle with Minerva and Mercury

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1770

Public domainThe Met
Minerva and Mercury

Minerva and Mercury

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mercury, by Haly workshop

Mercury

Haly workshop · last half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Minerva, Mercury, Juno and Venus on Clouds, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Minerva, Mercury, Juno and Venus on Clouds, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Minerva

Clodion (Claude Michel) · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Louis XVI restaurateur de la liberte, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Louis XVI restaurateur de la liberte

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva, by Jean Limosin

Minerva

Jean Limosin · ca. 1605

Public domainThe Met
Suite of 7 Ornamental Designs with the Judgement of Paris, by Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618

Suite of 7 Ornamental Designs with the Judgement of Paris

Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva and Mercury, by Domenico Marchetti

Minerva and Mercury

Domenico Marchetti · March 1, 1787

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, by Jan Muller

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller · 1604

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus, by Jan Muller

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller · 1604

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ida Minerva Tarbell, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Ida Minerva Tarbell

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ida Minerva Tarbell, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Ida Minerva Tarbell

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · c. 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armlet for an Image with Crossed Vajras

Armlet for an Image with Crossed Vajras

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Minerva Chapman Self-Portrait, by Minerva Josephine Chapman, 1858 - 1947

Minerva Chapman Self-Portrait

Minerva Josephine Chapman, 1858 - 1947 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci), by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci)

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · before 1805

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. 672 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1463823 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.