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 Sepulcher Monument” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 02:28 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.
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Project for a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–1650

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

Pope Innocent X

Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Public Monument, by Alexandre Théodore Brongniart

Project for a Public Monument

Alexandre Théodore Brongniart · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument for an Artist

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument for an Artist

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Design for a Sepulcher Monument for a Couple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a little girl

Marble grave stele of a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Design of a Sepulcher Monument for a Prelate

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Stage: A Cemetery, by Pasquale Canna, Italian, active 18th century

Design for a Stage: A Cemetery

Pasquale Canna, Italian, active 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for the Monument de la Montagne, Orléans, by Claude Mathieu Delagardette

Project for the Monument de la Montagne, Orléans

Claude Mathieu Delagardette · ca. 1794

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Monumental Fountain, by Augustin Pajou

Project for a Monumental Fountain

Augustin Pajou · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Matteo Torelli, Italian

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Matteo Torelli, Italian · 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Monumental Tomb, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Project for a Monumental Tomb

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Holy Sepulcher

Project for a Holy Sepulcher

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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. 297 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2507467 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 02:28 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.