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. 19 shown for “Sebastiano Conca” — 47 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 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 Prophet Jeremiah, by Sebastiano Conca

The Prophet Jeremiah

Sebastiano Conca · 1718

Public domainThe Met
Vignette, Trophy of Turkish Arms, by Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764

Vignette, Trophy of Turkish Arms

Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (recto); Sketches with Two Putti (verso), by Sebastiano Conca

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (recto); Sketches with Two Putti (verso)

Sebastiano Conca · ca. 1716–18

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna With Sleeping Child, by John Boydell, British, 1719 – 1804

The Madonna With Sleeping Child

John Boydell, British, 1719 – 1804 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tiburtine Sibyl, by Girolamo Carattoni

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Girolamo Carattoni · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Saints, by Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764

Madonna and Saints

Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Benedict Orders the Destruction of Idols at Montecassino, by Gaspare Serenario

Saint Benedict Orders the Destruction of Idols at Montecassino

Gaspare Serenario · 1694–1759

Public domainThe Met
Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, Rome, by Szymon Czechowicz, Polish, 1689 - 1775

Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, Rome

Szymon Czechowicz, Polish, 1689 - 1775 · 1724–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, by Benedetto Luti

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Benedetto Luti · 1715–20

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Francesco Solimena

The Birth of the Virgin

Francesco Solimena · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 63 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 03:34 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.