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 “Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804” — 53 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 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.
Saint John the Evangelist (?), by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Saint John the Evangelist (?)

Pietro Antonio Novelli · before 1755

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque Heads, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Grotesque Heads

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Trade Card, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Design for a Trade Card

Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
An Audience Scene, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

An Audience Scene

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Seated Slave, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

A Seated Slave

Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of a Woman, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Allegorical Figure of a Woman

Pietro Antonio Novelli · ca. 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
Project for Part of a Painted Decoration, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Project for Part of a Painted Decoration

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Venetian Family Portrait Group, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

A Venetian Family Portrait Group

Pietro Antonio Novelli · after 1750

Public domainThe Met
Ascension of the Virgin, by Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647

Ascension of the Virgin

Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · ca. 1630–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Bearded Monk Showing a Portable Altar to a Praying Child, with an Old Woman Kneeling, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

A Bearded Monk Showing a Portable Altar to a Praying Child, with an Old Woman Kneeling

Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-Length Study for a Portrait of a Young Man, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Half-Length Study for a Portrait of a Young Man

Pietro Antonio Novelli · mid-18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Peter and St. Agatha, by Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647

St. Peter and St. Agatha

Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · 1603–47

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul the Hermit and Saint Anthony Abbot conversing in a landscape, after Pietro Antonio Novelli, by Francesco Novelli

Saint Paul the Hermit and Saint Anthony Abbot conversing in a landscape, after Pietro Antonio Novelli

Francesco Novelli · ca. 1784–1836

Public domainThe Met
Sacrifice of Noah, by Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647

Sacrifice of Noah

Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chained Nude Prisoner, after Pietro Tacca, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Chained Nude Prisoner, after Pietro Tacca

Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana Visiting the Sleeping Endymion, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Diana Visiting the Sleeping Endymion

Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Public domainThe Met
Three Arabesque Panel Designs, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Three Arabesque Panel Designs

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satirical drawing: Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Satirical drawing: Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait

Pietro Antonio Novelli · 1729–1804

Public domainThe Met
Dedication, by Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800

Dedication

Simon Julien, French, 1735 - 1800 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Man, by Pietro Antonio Novelli

Head of a Man

Pietro Antonio Novelli · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Daniel in the Lion's Den

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 49697 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 06:29 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.