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 “Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 26 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 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
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

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
Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

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
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

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

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Porte dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

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

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

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. 143 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. 3353706 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-10 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.