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 “Miniature Relief of a Saint Luke at His Writing Table” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Miniature Relief of a Saint Luke at His Writing Table

Miniature Relief of a Saint Luke at His Writing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225

Public domainThe Met
St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Saint Luke in a Niche, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Luke in a Niche

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Robert Louis Stevenson, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Robert Louis Stevenson

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1887, cast 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Relief of Saint Mark at His Writing Table

Miniature Relief of Saint Mark at His Writing Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1225

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Relief of Saint John the Evangelist at His Writing Table

Miniature Relief of Saint John the Evangelist at His Writing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), by Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud, by Georges Jacob

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

Georges Jacob · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Two Representations of Saint Luke Making a Portrait of the Virgin and the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Two Representations of Saint Luke Making a Portrait of the Virgin and the Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Matthew (S.Mathevs)

St. Matthew (S.Mathevs)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Virgin, Infant, and Saint John

Virgin, Infant, and Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from a Pulpit with the Symbol of Saint Luke, by Master Christophanus or Stephanus

Relief from a Pulpit with the Symbol of Saint Luke

Master Christophanus or Stephanus · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
St. Mark (S.Marcvs)

St. Mark (S.Marcvs)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Saint Anthony the Hermit, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

Saint Anthony the Hermit

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1521

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
St. John the Evangelist (S. Ioannes)

St. John the Evangelist (S. Ioannes)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

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. 272 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. 3916457 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 07:39 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.