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. 16 shown for “Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:06 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.
Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Jennings Brown, by John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

Jacob Jennings Brown

John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Fields, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
John Jacob Astor, by John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

John Jacob Astor

John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee

Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 28, 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series

Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, by Jörg Breu the Younger

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh

Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Public domainThe Met
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
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. 101 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. 3432455 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:06 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.