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 “Oxalis grandis Small” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:59 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.
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence, by Baccio Bandinelli

Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence

Baccio Bandinelli · 1539–40

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Ludovico Mazzolino

The Lamentation

Ludovico Mazzolino · ca. 1514–16

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso), by Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) · 1435–38

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist, by Baldassare degli Embriachi

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist

Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in Parma Cathedral), by Michelangelo Anselmi

Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in Parma Cathedral)

Michelangelo Anselmi · ca. 1548

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1895

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 88955 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 2026-09-06 20:59 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.