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. 22 shown for “Portrait of Antonius Triest, Bishop of Ghent” — 50 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:17 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.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Antonius Triest, Bishop of Ghent

Portrait of Antonius Triest, Bishop of Ghent

Artist not stated in the record · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Antonius Perrenot, Cardinal Granvellan, Archbishop of Mechlin

Portrait of Antonius Perrenot, Cardinal Granvellan, Archbishop of Mechlin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700-1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Antonius Perrenot, Cardinal de Granville (1517-1586)

Portrait of Antonius Perrenot, Cardinal de Granville (1517-1586)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725-1750

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
Portrait of Johannes Antonius Sergius

Portrait of Johannes Antonius Sergius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
John Quincy Adams, by Pieter Van Huffel, 1769 - 1844

John Quincy Adams

Pieter Van Huffel, 1769 - 1844 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Giuliano and Clemente della Rovere, by Giovanni Filangieri Candida

Giuliano and Clemente della Rovere

Giovanni Filangieri Candida · ca. 1494

Public domainThe Met
Marie Antoinette, by Lambertus Antonius Claessens, Belgian, born Antwerp, Flanders 1763/1764-died Rueil, France 1834

Marie Antoinette

Lambertus Antonius Claessens, Belgian, born Antwerp, Flanders 1763/1764-died Rueil, France 1834 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen), by Wenceslaus Hollar

Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen)

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Halftone print portrait of Bishop James W. Hood

Halftone print portrait of Bishop James W. Hood

Artist not stated in the record · 1895-1902; printed after 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814, by Sir Amédée Forestier, British, born Paris, France 1854-died London, England 1930

The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814

Sir Amédée Forestier, British, born Paris, France 1854-died London, England 1930 · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profile Portrait of Bishop Antonius Campanus of Agram (Zagreb), by French

Profile Portrait of Bishop Antonius Campanus of Agram (Zagreb)

French · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Poster for the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, by Mother Bethel AME Church, American, founded 1794

Poster for the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia

Mother Bethel AME Church, American, founded 1794 · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anna Bishop

Anna Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anna Bishop

Anna Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2864378 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 08:17 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.