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 “Reciting Poetry in a Garden” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 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.
Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Promotional card for a piano recital given by Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone)

Promotional card for a piano recital given by Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone)

Artist not stated in the record · 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Fountain

Garden Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Program from a Mrs. Coretta Scott King recital on September 30, 1956, by Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877

Program from a Mrs. Coretta Scott King recital on September 30, 1956

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877 · September 30, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden

Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz, by Sa'di

Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz

Sa'di · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji, by Tosa School

Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji

Tosa School · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Program from a concert featuring Roland Hayes

Program from a concert featuring Roland Hayes

Artist not stated in the record · 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A, by Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002

Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A

Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002 · 2015

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. 254 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483325 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-27 18:46 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.