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 “Sebastiano del Piombo” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:08 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.
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506), by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1519

Public domainThe Met
Lunette with St. Peter and St.Paul with St. Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with St. Peter and St.Paul with St. Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Old Woman, by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

Head of an Old Woman

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1485–1547

Public domainThe Met
Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist, by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

The Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1485–1547

Public domainThe Met
Campanula elatines L.

Campanula elatines L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ standing at left addressing the Woman of Samaria at right who is standing by a well, lagoon in the background, by Giulio Campagnola

Christ standing at left addressing the Woman of Samaria at right who is standing by a well, lagoon in the background

Giulio Campagnola · ca. 1510–12

Public domainThe Met
Cedrela tonduzii C. DC.

Cedrela tonduzii C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors, by Sebastiano del Piombo

Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors

Sebastiano del Piombo

Public domainThe Met
Pernettya prostrata (Cav.) DC.

Pernettya prostrata (Cav.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Carrying the Cross

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1577–87

Public domainThe Met
The Banquet of Cleopatra, by Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian, born Florence, Italy ca.1611-died Venice, Italy ca.1678

The Banquet of Cleopatra

Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian, born Florence, Italy ca.1611-died Venice, Italy ca.1678 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

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
Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini, by Maestro delle Storie del Pane

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494(?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buckle, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Buckle

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

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
Portrait of an Olivetan Monk, by Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Portrait of an Olivetan Monk

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for an Earring

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Sibyl and Attendant Genius (recto); Study of the Head of a Horse in Profile (verso), by Pirro Ligorio

Seated Sibyl and Attendant Genius (recto); Study of the Head of a Horse in Profile (verso)

Pirro Ligorio · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Brooches, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Luis de Morales

The Lamentation

Luis de Morales · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Brooch

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1765

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. 96 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. 179965 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 2026-09-01 07:08 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.