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 “Seated Virgin and Child” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:16 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.
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1553

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Virgin and Child

Seated Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Virgin and Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin, by Joan Avesta

Virgin

Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child

The Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child

The Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Virgin and Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1825-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Virgin and Child

Seated Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Girolamo Siciolante, Italian, ca. 1521 - 1575

Virgin and Child

Girolamo Siciolante, Italian, ca. 1521 - 1575 · ca. 1521–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Virgin and Child

Seated Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin, Child and Saint John

The Virgin, Child and Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · after 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Virgin Seated On the Clouds

Virgin Seated On the Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Virgin and Child

Seated Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saints, by Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675

Virgin and Child with Saints

Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1635–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Virgin and Child, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Standing Virgin and Child

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Parrot

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Artist not stated in the record · 1549

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. 1592 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. 1482648 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-29 07:16 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.