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 “Painter of the Long Overfalls” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 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 bell-krater (mixing bowl), by Painter of the Long Overfalls

Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

Painter of the Long Overfalls · ca. 380–360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Euphrasia arctica Lange ex Rostrup

Euphrasia arctica Lange ex Rostrup

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Poa pratensis subsp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.

Poa pratensis subsp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Epeleios Painter

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Epeleios Painter · ca. 510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drosera intermedia Hayne

Drosera intermedia Hayne

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Xyris montana Ries

Xyris montana Ries

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1961

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
Eriophorum virginicum L.

Eriophorum virginicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Symphyotrichum sp.

Symphyotrichum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Aronia x prunifolia (Marshall) Rehder

Aronia x prunifolia (Marshall) Rehder

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538), by North Netherlandish Painter

Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538)

North Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Carex saxatilis L.

Carex saxatilis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) A. Gray

Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing an Allegory of the Painter, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing an Allegory of the Painter

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Portrait of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Adam-Frans van der Meulen

Portrait of Adam-Frans van der Meulen

Artist not stated in the record · 1687

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. 1090 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2999934 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 12:15 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.