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 “Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:12 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.
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1659

Public domainThe Met
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1659

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1659

Public domainThe Met
S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1513

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple

The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Peter and John at the Gate of the Temple

Peter and John at the Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1659

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Peter and St. John Healing the Cripples at the Gate of the Temple, by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

St. Peter and St. John Healing the Cripples at the Gate of the Temple

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · ca. 1524–27

Public domainThe Met
Peter and John at the Temple

Peter and John at the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Gate to the Temple of Hymen, Pavilion Erected in the Place Dauphin, Paris, France, by Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776

Gate to the Temple of Hymen, Pavilion Erected in the Place Dauphin, Paris, France

Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776 · 1745

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
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 27-31, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, by Nicolas Poussin

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

Nicolas Poussin · 1655

Public domainThe Met
Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Adulteress, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ and the Adulteress

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Asakua Temple, No 99 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Asakua Kinryuzan), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Asakua Temple, No 99 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Asakua Kinryuzan)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

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
The Column from the Temple of Solomon, by Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65

The Column from the Temple of Solomon

Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

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
Handwritten manumission document for thirteen enslaved persons

Handwritten manumission document for thirteen enslaved persons

Artist not stated in the record · 1827; modified 1831

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. 269 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. 3372782 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 14:12 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.