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. 12 shown for “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:22 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child, by Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857

Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child

Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flight into Egypt, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Flight into Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1916-1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rest on the Flight to Egypt, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Rest on the Flight to Egypt

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flight into Egypt, by Robert Loftin Newman, born Richmond, VA 1827-died New York City 1912

Flight into Egypt

Robert Loftin Newman, born Richmond, VA 1827-died New York City 1912 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928

The Flight into Egypt

H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928 · ca. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by George Hitchcock, born Providence, RI 1850-died Marken Island, Netherlands 1913

The Flight into Egypt

George Hitchcock, born Providence, RI 1850-died Marken Island, Netherlands 1913 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Departure into Egypt (At the Inn), by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Departure into Egypt (At the Inn)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · 1470–75

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1818676 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 00:22 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.