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. 23 shown for “Seek No Further March” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 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.
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Public domainThe Met
Seek No Further March

Seek No Further March

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Pigeon post microform on paper

Pigeon post microform on paper

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Taddeo Gaddi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
The Resignation of Pres. Washington

The Resignation of Pres. Washington

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Handbill for a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao 鍾離訪道圖, by Traditionally attributed to Jing Hao (傳)荊浩 (ca. 870-ca.935)

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao 鍾離訪道圖

Traditionally attributed to Jing Hao (傳)荊浩 (ca. 870-ca.935) · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penitent Woman Anointing the Feet of Christ at the Table of Simon the Pharisee (Luke 7:36-50), by Biagio Pupini

Penitent Woman Anointing the Feet of Christ at the Table of Simon the Pharisee (Luke 7:36-50)

Biagio Pupini · 1511–51

Public domainThe Met
Transatlantic cover to London, England

Transatlantic cover to London, England

Artist not stated in the record · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Clearing skies over Mount Hua 華嶽睛嵐圖, by Formerly attributed to Fan Kuan (傳)范寬 (ca. 960-ca. 1030)

Clearing skies over Mount Hua 華嶽睛嵐圖

Formerly attributed to Fan Kuan (傳)范寬 (ca. 960-ca. 1030) · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony van Dyck

Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Left-handed baritone Mirafone

Left-handed baritone Mirafone

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Rachel Walters from John Louderback

Letter to Rachel Walters from John Louderback

Artist not stated in the record · May 27, 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Catherine Vlasto, by John Singer Sargent, American, b. Florence, Italy, 1856–1925

Catherine Vlasto

John Singer Sargent, American, b. Florence, Italy, 1856–1925 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
The Flesh of Others, by Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928

The Flesh of Others

Medardo Rosso, Italian, b. Turin, 1858–1928 · (1883/cast c. 1890-1895)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
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. 1113 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 218579 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:44 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.