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 “Salome” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:31 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.
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Salome, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Salome

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome

Salome

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated 14th century)

Public domainThe Met
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, by Gustave Moreau

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Gustave Moreau · ca. 1876

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea Solario

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Public domainThe Met
Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist, by Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703

Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist

Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703 · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome Dancing before Herod, by Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Salome Dancing before Herod

Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia exostemma Lindau

Ruellia exostemma Lindau

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist, by Gustave Moreau

Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist

Gustave Moreau · mid to late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Columnea sanguinea (Pers.) Hanst.

Columnea sanguinea (Pers.) Hanst.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, by Spanish (Catalan) Painter

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Spanish (Catalan) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Miconia sylvatica (Schltdl.) Naudin

Miconia sylvatica (Schltdl.) Naudin

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Philodendron macroglossum Schott

Philodendron macroglossum Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Memorial to Salome and Moses Brown, by Charlotte Brown

Memorial to Salome and Moses Brown

Charlotte Brown · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Anthurium humboldtianum Kunth

Anthurium humboldtianum Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome and the head of Saint John the Baptist, by Giovita Garavaglia

Salome and the head of Saint John the Baptist

Giovita Garavaglia · 1815–35

Public domainThe Met
Siparuna thecaphora (Poepp. & Endl.) A. DC.

Siparuna thecaphora (Poepp. & Endl.) A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1985

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. 70 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 406 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-03 05:31 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.