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 Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)” — 62 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:40 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.
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 Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)

Portrait of Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of General Juan Pablo Anaya, by Unknown

Portrait of General Juan Pablo Anaya

Unknown · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Pablo Casals, by Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1870 - 1928

Pablo Casals

Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1870 - 1928 · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of an Old Man, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Portrait of an Old Man

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1595–1600

Public domainThe Met
Pablo Casals, by Henry Major, 1889 - 1948

Pablo Casals

Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

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
Pablo Casals, by Unidentified Artist

Pablo Casals

Unidentified Artist · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Briza minor L.

Briza minor L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.

Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Lay, by William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791

Benjamin Lay

William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791 · c. 1750-58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Allophylus racemosus Sw.

Allophylus racemosus Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Luis de Morales

The Lamentation

Luis de Morales · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Platyptilia cooleyi

Platyptilia cooleyi

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome as Scholar, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Adiantum decoratum Maxon & Weath.

Adiantum decoratum Maxon & Weath.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan Bery, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Juan Bery

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan Beaumonde Livaudais, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Juan Beaumonde Livaudais

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 12 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. 2892251 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 20:40 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.