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. 12 shown for “Pietro da Rimini” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:21 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Figural Study, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

Figural Study

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1596–1669

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook page: Allegorical Figure, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 – 1669

Sketchbook page: Allegorical Figure

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 – 1669 · 1660–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Clouds with Putto and Doves, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

Scene in the Clouds with Putto and Doves

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · ca. 1632

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Music

Music

Artist not stated in the record · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1626–1629

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family

Holy Family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Motifs from the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Motifs from the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sargassum hornschuchii

Sargassum hornschuchii

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page: Ceiling and Architectural Details, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Ceiling and Architectural Details, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sargassum acinarium

Sargassum acinarium

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crataegus iracunda Beadle

Crataegus iracunda Beadle

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/5/2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum ferrumequinum

Rhinolophus ferrumequinum ferrumequinum

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1879

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 62585 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-26 23:21 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.