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 “Project for a Country Villa” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 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.
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Country Villa

Project for a Country Villa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a country villa, by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806

Design for a country villa

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806 · 1765-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Villa Loredan, Paese, by Francesco Guardi

The Villa Loredan, Paese

Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Elevation of a Villa, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Project for the Elevation of a Villa

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Potamogeton nodosus Poir.

Potamogeton nodosus Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Cardinal Pamphili Villa, Facade Decorated for a Visit of Pope Clement XIII, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Cardinal Pamphili Villa, Facade Decorated for a Visit of Pope Clement XIII

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1758–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Innocent X, by Alessandro Algardi

Pope Innocent X

Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Five designs for various structures for a villa, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Five designs for various structures for a villa

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei, by Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Public domainThe Met
Potamogeton nodosus Poir.

Potamogeton nodosus Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Potamogeton foliosus Raf. var. foliosus

Potamogeton foliosus Raf. var. foliosus

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1941 to Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden), by Unknown, Italian

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)

Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Villa Almerico (Villa Rotunda), from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio (Book 2, page 19), by Andrea Palladio

Villa Almerico (Villa Rotunda), from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio (Book 2, page 19)

Andrea Palladio · 1570

Public domainThe Met
Leucocroton microphyllus (A. Rich.) Pax & K. Hoffm.

Leucocroton microphyllus (A. Rich.) Pax & K. Hoffm.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune and the Winds, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Neptune and the Winds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Blanchardia clypeata subsp. cryptocarpa (A. Rich.) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Blanchardia clypeata subsp. cryptocarpa (A. Rich.) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alpheus and Arethusa, by Battista di Domenico Lorenzi

Alpheus and Arethusa

Battista di Domenico Lorenzi · 1568–70

Public domainThe Met
Laportea cuneata (A. Rich.) Chew

Laportea cuneata (A. Rich.) Chew

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1941

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. 412 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7013548 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 13:53 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.