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. 23 shown for “R. Hayes” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:26 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.
Charles I, by R. Hayes

Charles I

R. Hayes · after 1649

Public domainThe Met
Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.

Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Shaiva Saint

Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Shaiva Saint

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tamias striatus fisheri

Tamias striatus fisheri

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portable diptych sundial, by David Beringer

Portable diptych sundial

David Beringer · ca. 1780–1821

Public domainThe Met
Dithyrea wislizeni Engelm.

Dithyrea wislizeni Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace, by Vincent van Gogh

Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace

Vincent van Gogh · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Lafresnaya lafresnayi lafresnayi

Lafresnaya lafresnayi lafresnayi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with Gloves, by Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Ampullaria gracilis

Ampullaria gracilis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Ampullaria turbinis

Ampullaria turbinis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair of Reniseneb

Chair of Reniseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pila turbinis

Pila turbinis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestand (one of a pair)

Candlestand (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Sinningia tubiflora (Hook.) Fritsch

Sinningia tubiflora (Hook.) Fritsch

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Among the Clouds, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Madonna and Child Among the Clouds

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Spilanthes paraguayensis R.K. Jansen

Spilanthes paraguayensis R.K. Jansen

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Machaonia brasiliensis (Hoffmanns. ex Humb.) Cham. & Schltdl.

Machaonia brasiliensis (Hoffmanns. ex Humb.) Cham. & Schltdl.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/11/90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
War Scene (A Female Casualty), by Théodule-Augustin Ribot

War Scene (A Female Casualty)

Théodule-Augustin Ribot · ca. 1870–72

Public domainThe Met
Rauia spicata Haye

Rauia spicata Haye

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1920

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. 145 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 977921 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 2026-09-08 12:26 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.