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 Saint Martin and the Beggar” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:12 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 Saint Martin and the Beggar

Roundel with Saint Martin and the Beggar

Artist not stated in the record · 1490–1500

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

Public domainThe Met
Le Printems, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Le Printems

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, by Francí Gomar

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló

Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Public domainThe Met
L’Eté, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Eté

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
L’Hiver, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Hiver

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
L’Automne, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Automne

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Oeuvre de Saint Eustache, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Oeuvre de Saint Eustache

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin

Saint Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Marquise, by Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776

Marquise

Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly, by Master of Saint Giles

Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly

Master of Saint Giles · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Church Gate Design, by Caillouet, French, mid-18th century

Church Gate Design

Caillouet, French, mid-18th century · 1775–87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study, by Pseudo-Ortkens

Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study

Pseudo-Ortkens · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Book cover

Book cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

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. 601 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. 1997671 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 17:12 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.