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. 21 shown for “Portrait of Christ” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:28 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.
Portrait of Christ

Portrait of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated late 5th–early 6th century)

Public domainThe Met
Head of Christ, by Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729

Head of Christ

Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1700–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Stand

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1825–50

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candle Stand, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Candle Stand

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1800–1840

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monstrance, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Monstrance

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blanket Chest, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Blanket Chest

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1835–75

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rocking Chair, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Rocking Chair

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50

Public domainThe Met
The Savior, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

The Savior

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900-1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Revolving Chair, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Revolving Chair

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1840–70

Public domainThe Met
Christ, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Christ

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine of the Virgin

Shrine of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Brigham Young, by Hartwig Bornemann, 1837 - 1887

Brigham Young

Hartwig Bornemann, 1837 - 1887 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ, by Lucas van Leyden

Christ

Lucas van Leyden · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1820–1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
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. 44801 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2866791 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:28 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.