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 “Portrait of Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1650-1723)” — 56 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:56 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.
Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville (1403–1483), Bishop of Ostia and Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, by Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni)

Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville (1403–1483), Bishop of Ostia and Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen

Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni) · third quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1650-1723)

Portrait of Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1650-1723)

Artist not stated in the record · 1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee, by Frederic François Dubois-Tesselin, 1832 - ?

Robert E. Lee

Frederic François Dubois-Tesselin, 1832 - ? · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, by Unidentified (Dutch)

Portrait of a Man

Unidentified (Dutch) · ca. 1600-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Guillaume Pecholier, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Guillaume Pecholier

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Martelli, by Dominic Rossi

Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Martelli

Dominic Rossi · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Andrea Bregno

Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno · 1491

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Cardinal

Portrait of a Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, by Lambert Suavius

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

Lambert Suavius · 1554

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Guillaume Thomas Raynal (1713-1796)

Portrait of Guillaume Thomas Raynal (1713-1796)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

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

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, by Jean Morin, French, 1605 - 1650

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin

Jean Morin, French, 1605 - 1650 · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberino

Portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberino

Artist not stated in the record · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le cardinal Guillaume-Égon de Fürstenberg, by Robert Nanteuil

Le cardinal Guillaume-Égon de Fürstenberg

Robert Nanteuil · 1671

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Cardinal

Portrait of a Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · 1725-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Girolamo Colonna, Cardinal

Portrait of Girolamo Colonna, Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Cardinal

Portrait of a Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1640

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. 16 matched · 16 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. 2863903 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-10 20:56 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.