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 “Roncone of the Bodyguard of the Gonzaga Family” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:41 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.
Roncone of the Bodyguard of the Gonzaga Family

Roncone of the Bodyguard of the Gonzaga Family

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for Acanthus Rinceaux with Animals and Birds

Design for Acanthus Rinceaux with Animals and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 1524–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia tepezapote Schltdl. & Cham.

Ternstroemia tepezapote Schltdl. & Cham.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
St. Aloysius Gonzaga is received in Heaven by the Christ Child

St. Aloysius Gonzaga is received in Heaven by the Christ Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Picramnia pentandra Sw.

Picramnia pentandra Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of the Bodyguard of Guglielmo Gonzaga (1538–1587), Duke of Mantua and Monferrato

Glaive of the Bodyguard of Guglielmo Gonzaga (1538–1587), Duke of Mantua and Monferrato

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Byrsonima spicata (Cav.) DC.

Byrsonima spicata (Cav.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Painting of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Infant Saint James Major or Saint Luis Gonzaga, by Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808

Study for a Painting of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Infant Saint James Major or Saint Luis Gonzaga

Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of the Bodyguard of the Tiepolo Family

Glaive of the Bodyguard of the Tiepolo Family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Malvaviscus arboreus var. mexicanus Schltdl.

Malvaviscus arboreus var. mexicanus Schltdl.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of the Bodyguard of the Tiepolo Family

Glaive of the Bodyguard of the Tiepolo Family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Megalastrum longiglandulosum R.C. Moran & J. Prado

Megalastrum longiglandulosum R.C. Moran & J. Prado

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card portrait of a woman identified as a cook

Cabinet card portrait of a woman identified as a cook

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)

Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1610

Public domainThe Met
Eucheuma uncinatum Setch. & N.L. Gardner

Eucheuma uncinatum Setch. & N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of the Bodyguard of Giovanni Battista Bourbon del Monte (1541–1614)

Glaive of the Bodyguard of Giovanni Battista Bourbon del Monte (1541–1614)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–1600

Public domainThe Met
Scinaia latifrons M. Howe

Scinaia latifrons M. Howe

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satyr, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Satyr

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1510–ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Fushitsunagia catenata (Harv.) Filloramo & G.W. Saunders

Fushitsunagia catenata (Harv.) Filloramo & G.W. Saunders

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1975

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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2984555 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 16:41 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.