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 Magdalen Repenting” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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 Penitent Magdalen, by Georges de La Tour

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Saint Magdalen Repenting

Saint Magdalen Repenting

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned, by Master of the Magdalen

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Master of the Magdalen

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Magdalen, by Corrado Giaquinto

The Penitent Magdalen

Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene, by Unidentified (French)

Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene

Unidentified (French) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mary Magdalen, by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)

Saint Mary Magdalen

Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalene

The Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · 1586

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen, by Andrea Mantegna

The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen

Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1495–1500

Public domainThe Met
Study: Saint Mary Magdalene

Study: Saint Mary Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation, by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation

Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400

Public domainThe Met
Loxia leucoptera leucoptera

Loxia leucoptera leucoptera

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1882

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
Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia, by Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia

Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681 · 1638

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Magdalen, by Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Magdalen

Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923 · 1883-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Gerard David

The Crucifixion

Gerard David · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Zonotrichia albicollis

Zonotrichia albicollis

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Christ Appearing to Mary, by Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918

Christ Appearing to Mary

Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen, by Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Public domainThe Met
Catharus minimus bicknelli

Catharus minimus bicknelli

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Anthony van Dyck

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Crucifixion, by H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928

Crucifixion

H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928 · 1915-1925

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. 230 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. 43460 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 12:19 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.