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 “Prudence and Beauty” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.
Prudence, by Etienne Delaune

Prudence

Etienne Delaune · ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Prudence and Beauty

Prudence and Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prudence, by Andrea della Robbia

Prudence

Andrea della Robbia · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Four Ovals: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Ovals: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty, by Kano Chikanobu

Beauty

Kano Chikanobu · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Prudence, Vaulted Panel, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Prudence, Vaulted Panel, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty

Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Project with Prudence in Oval, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project with Prudence in Oval

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Prudence," Lunette in Hudson County Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study for "Prudence," Lunette in Hudson County Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monumental vase, by Pierre Philippe Thomire

Monumental vase

Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Public domainThe Met
Prudence, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Prudence

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
Prudence, by Johann August Nahl The Younger, German, 1752 - 1825

Prudence

Johann August Nahl The Younger, German, 1752 - 1825 · ca. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty Revealed, by Sarah Goodridge

Beauty Revealed

Sarah Goodridge · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Painting: Prudence, by Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808

Design for an Ovoidal Painting: Prudence

Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece, by Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece

Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument to Emperor Charles VI of Naples, by Baldassare De Caro, Italian, active early 18th century

Design for a Monument to Emperor Charles VI of Naples

Baldassare De Caro, Italian, active early 18th century · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Armor, by Jörg Wagner

Composite Armor

Jörg Wagner · comprehensively ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 7668 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. 1464028 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.