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 sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:27 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.
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.

Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 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
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

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
Design for the Artist’ Sepulchral Monument, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for the Artist’ Sepulchral Monument

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

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
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
Sepulchral monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night", Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night", Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy, by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765

Design of Wall Decoration and Equestrian Monument for Law Courts, Naples, Italy

Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus Marina, by Girolamo Campagna

Venus Marina

Girolamo Campagna · late 16th century–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

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

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Sepulchral Monument (Mausoleum), by Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804

Project for a Sepulchral Monument (Mausoleum)

Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1800

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. 242 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2595201 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 19:27 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.