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. 20 shown for “Scleranthus perennis L.” — 50 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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 Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Water and Plants, by Thomas Fearnley

Study of Water and Plants

Thomas Fearnley · 1837

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Spring 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
United States Continental Currency – Fifty Dollars, by Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

United States Continental Currency – Fifty Dollars

Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · September 26, 1778

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commemorating the Coronation Festivals. 1804., by Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet

Commemorating the Coronation Festivals. 1804.

Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pygmalion and Galatea, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Virgin and Child

Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter · ca. 1495–1500

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen, by Johann Liss

The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen

Johann Liss · ca. 1626

Public domainThe Met
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scleranthus perennis L.

Scleranthus perennis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1884

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1291013 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 08:38 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.