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 “Plaque with Saint Peter” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sudarium (Saints Veronica, Peter, and Paul), from The Little Passion Series

The Sudarium (Saints Veronica, Peter, and Paul), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter and Paul over the Vatican, by Minardi Tommaso, Italian, 1787 - 1871

Saints Peter and Paul over the Vatican

Minardi Tommaso, Italian, 1787 - 1871 · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of S. Francesco Xavier (1506-1552)

Portrait of S. Francesco Xavier (1506-1552)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Second Scene, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Second Scene

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Apostles, by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Two Apostles

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacquemontia cayensis Britton

Jacquemontia cayensis Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1937

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. 315645 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 20:19 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.