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 “Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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.
Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1435–50

Public domainThe Met
Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Two Facades of a Public Building, by Antonio Sarti, Italian, 1797 - 1880

Two Facades of a Public Building

Antonio Sarti, Italian, 1797 - 1880 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Seven of Diamonds, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Seven of Diamonds

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Seven of Clubs, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Seven of Clubs

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Bush Clover and Birds

Bush Clover and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Bush Clover on Lattice

Bush Clover on Lattice

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Seven of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Seven of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a public building, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a public building

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Seven of Hearts, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Seven of Hearts

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Panoramic handscreen

Panoramic handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
The Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse

The Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1496-97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, by Sesson Shūkei

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Public domainThe Met
Maisaka from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Maisaka from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1855

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. 105 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483517 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 08:09 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.