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 “Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:35 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.
Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica

Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Bearing the Cross, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Carrying the Cross

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1577–87

Public domainThe Met
A Saint's Vision of the Cross, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Saint's Vision of the Cross

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Reliquary Cross, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Elevation of a Reliquary Cross

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Way to Calvary, with Saint Veronica Receiving the Veil Imprinted with the Face of Christ

The Way to Calvary, with Saint Veronica Receiving the Veil Imprinted with the Face of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Veronica

Veronica

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Infant John in the Wilderness accompanied by Angels [above]; Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Christ in Glory with Angels, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Christ in Glory with Angels

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Easter Sepulchre, by Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810

Design for an Easter Sepulchre

Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Carved Trophies, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Designs for Carved Trophies

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

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
Design of an Altar mensa, by Unknown, Italian

Design of an Altar mensa

Unknown, Italian · 1650-1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icon with the Crucifixion

Icon with the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century

Public domainThe Met
The Great Rosary, by Master MTR of Nuremberg, German

The Great Rosary

Master MTR of Nuremberg, German · 1519

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, by Martin Schongauer

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

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. 628 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. 1351170 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 19:35 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.