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. 20 shown for “Prometheus Painter” — 48 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 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.
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by Prometheus Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

Prometheus Painter · ca. 570–560 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Prometheus Painter

Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Prometheus Painter · ca. 575–560 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neck-amphora, Tyrrhenian fragments, by Prometheus Painter

Neck-amphora, Tyrrhenian fragments

Prometheus Painter · ca. 575–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus Chained to the Rocks of Caucasus

Prometheus Chained to the Rocks of Caucasus

Artist not stated in the record · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Painting and Poetry mourning the death of Agostino Carracci, painted by Francesco Brizio; 2. Painting with a lyre and Apollo pointing to stars on Carracci's grave, design by Giacomo Cavedone; 3. The head of Christ, painted by Agostino Carracci; 4. Prometheus with a torch and Athena behind him, painted by Alessandro Albini; 5. Aurora abducting Cephalus, painted by Leonello Spada., by Guido Reni

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Painting and Poetry mourning the death of Agostino Carracci, painted by Francesco Brizio; 2. Painting with a lyre and Apollo pointing to stars on Carracci's grave, design by Giacomo Cavedone; 3. The head of Christ, painted by Agostino Carracci; 4. Prometheus with a torch and Athena behind him, painted by Alessandro Albini; 5. Aurora abducting Cephalus, painted by Leonello Spada.

Guido Reni · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Geocolaptes olivaceus prometheus

Geocolaptes olivaceus prometheus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus, by François Lespingola

Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus

François Lespingola · last quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal: Presciano de Ferrara, by Savelli Sperandio

Medal: Presciano de Ferrara

Savelli Sperandio · model 1473

Public domainThe Met
After Washington Allston's "Outlines and Sketches", by John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885

After Washington Allston's "Outlines and Sketches"

John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

(Studies--Villa Borghese, 2 figures, etc.)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, by Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winslow Homer, by Thomas A. Gray, active 1863

Winslow Homer

Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template

Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1864

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12905 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 15:12 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.