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 “S. Conca, Italian, n.d.” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:30 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.
Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, by Giovanni Pisano

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Old Italian Woman, by Edgar Degas

The Old Italian Woman

Edgar Degas · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triton, by Giambologna

Triton

Giambologna · 1590s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577–1633), by Giuliano Finelli

Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577–1633)

Giuliano Finelli · 1631–32

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order, by Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio

Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order

Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio · 1459

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

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

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

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. 1076 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. 832564 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 13:30 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.