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 “Rider Painter” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:03 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.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Rider Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Rider Painter · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Kennedy & Lucas

Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Kennedy & Lucas · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Rider Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Rider Painter · first half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Rider, Alexander

[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Rider, Alexander · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Marlay Painter

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Marlay Painter · ca. 430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Camp Meeting by Alexander Rider, by Rider, Alexander

Camp Meeting by Alexander Rider

Rider, Alexander · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), by Kaeppeli Painter

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Kaeppeli Painter · ca. 620–590 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Canoe Rider in the Fog, Lake Millinocket, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Canoe Rider in the Fog, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably September - October 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Rider Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Rider Painter · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Artillery Horses with Riders, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Artillery Horses with Riders

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emaciated Horse and Rider

Emaciated Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Cavalcade Painter

Fragment of a terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Cavalcade Painter · ca. 590–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider master die, by Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956

Horse and Rider master die

Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956 · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Orvieto Painter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Orvieto Painter · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Rider and Bridge, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Landscape with Rider and Bridge

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), by Angular Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Angular Painter · second quarter 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Apocalyptic Riders

The Apocalyptic Riders

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 13444 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-07 11:03 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.