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. 18 shown for “Pellegrini, n.d.” — 46 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:02 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.
The Head of Pompey Presented to Julius Caesar (recto); Study for an Elaborate Door Frame (verso), by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

The Head of Pompey Presented to Julius Caesar (recto); Study for an Elaborate Door Frame (verso)

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini · 1675–1741

Public domainThe Met
Venezia: Il Molo, by Pellegrini, n.d.

Venezia: Il Molo

Pellegrini, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Villa Loredan, Paese, by Francesco Guardi

The Villa Loredan, Paese

Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Plan for new administration building for hospital Trinita de Pellegrini, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Plan for new administration building for hospital Trinita de Pellegrini

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated satyr with an inkwell and a candlestick

Seated satyr with an inkwell and a candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria sp.

Digitaria sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated satyr with a shell, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated satyr with a shell

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · after 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her, by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her

Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus rigens (Trin.) É. Desv.

Sporobolus rigens (Trin.) É. Desv.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gaillardia megapotamica (Spreng.) Baker

Gaillardia megapotamica (Spreng.) Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nassella poeppigiana (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth

Nassella poeppigiana (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senecio ceratophylloides Griseb.

Senecio ceratophylloides Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conyza bonariensis var. leiotheca (S.F. Blake) Cuatrec.

Conyza bonariensis var. leiotheca (S.F. Blake) Cuatrec.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odontites pellegrini Sennen

Odontites pellegrini Sennen

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pavonia argentina Gürke

Pavonia argentina Gürke

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1928

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5815 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 14:02 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.