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 “Saint Barbara” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:18 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.
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1594

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

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
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Santa Barbara, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Santa Barbara

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1680-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara, by Unknown

Saint Barbara

Unknown · last quarter 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Figure, by Unidentified

Standing Figure

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosary Terminal Bead with the Virgin and Child, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine

Rosary Terminal Bead with the Virgin and Child, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Santa Barbara, by Unidentified

Santa Barbara

Unidentified · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Santa Barbara, by Unidentified

Santa Barbara

Unidentified · ca. 1675-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flagon

Flagon

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Phragmipedium Bald Eagle Creek

Phragmipedium Bald Eagle Creek

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Usnea sp.

Usnea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Orphrey

Orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara Holding a Tower, with the Arms of the City of Maastrict below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

Saint Barbara Holding a Tower, with the Arms of the City of Maastrict below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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. 493 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. 63660 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 20:18 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.