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 “Model of a Baptistry or Church” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 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.
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Model of a Baptistry or Church

Model of a Baptistry or Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bedouin Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Standing Bedouin Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869 - 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-06-10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Model of a Renaissance Church

Model of a Renaissance Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
George H. Grant's 1874 School Seat Patent Model

George H. Grant's 1874 School Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Altar Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Altar Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Altar Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bedouin Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Standing Bedouin Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fortuna, by Giambologna

Fortuna

Giambologna · 17th-18th Century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bedouin Figure with Knife Drawn, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Standing Bedouin Figure with Knife Drawn

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bedouin Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Standing Bedouin Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869 - 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bedouin Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Seated Bedouin Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Two Bedouins, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Bedouins

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 1874

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. 4406 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3878938 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-05 08:39 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.