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 Hubert” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:15 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.
Saint Hubert and the Stag

Saint Hubert and the Stag

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Hubert

Saint Hubert

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Flask, by Jeremias Ritter

Powder Flask

Jeremias Ritter · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Arnica montana L.

Arnica montana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum teres (Schimp.) Ångstr.

Sphagnum teres (Schimp.) Ångstr.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mass of Saint Basil, by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

The Mass of Saint Basil

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Arnica montana L.

Arnica montana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758), by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana andrewsii Griseb.

Gentiana andrewsii Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Stephen, by Hans Leinberger

Saint Stephen

Hans Leinberger · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett

Zizania aquatica var. brevis Fassett

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return of the Cattle, by Hubert Robert

The Return of the Cattle

Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Public domainThe Met
Carex canescens var. disjuncta Fernald

Carex canescens var. disjuncta Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772), by François Hubert Drouais

Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772)

François Hubert Drouais · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Salix alba L.

Salix alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erica Fulgida, by Pierre Joseph Redouté

Erica Fulgida

Pierre Joseph Redouté · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Stag Beetle, by Pierre Joseph Redouté

A Stag Beetle

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Public domainThe Met
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gloriosa Superba (Climbing Lily), by Pierre Joseph Redouté

Gloriosa Superba (Climbing Lily)

Pierre Joseph Redouté · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum fraseri Steud.

Hypericum fraseri Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/9/19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from "Les Liliacées", by Pierre Joseph Redouté

Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from "Les Liliacées"

Pierre Joseph Redouté · 1802–16

Public domainThe Met
Agalinis paupercula var. borealis Pennell

Agalinis paupercula var. borealis Pennell

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1919

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. 146 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. 44552 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 08:15 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.