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 “Sketch of Apollo, the nine Muses and Pegasus upon the summit of the Helicon” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:00 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 Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Apollo, the nine Muses and Pegasus upon the summit of the Helicon

Sketch of Apollo, the nine Muses and Pegasus upon the summit of the Helicon

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of Painting and Ornament, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Allegory of Painting and Ornament

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

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
Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800 - 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Thirteen Apollo Subjects for Ceiling, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thirteen Apollo Subjects for Ceiling

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Nine Circular Compositions with Diety Subject Matter, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Nine Circular Compositions with Diety Subject Matter

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
The Story of Telemachus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Story of Telemachus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
The Poet on Pegasus Entering the Realm of the Muses, by Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918

The Poet on Pegasus Entering the Realm of the Muses

Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918 · by 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1801 (?)

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument of the Philosopher Count Alessandro Verri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument of the Philosopher Count Alessandro Verri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · ca. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain Design: Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses

Stage Curtain Design: Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1812

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. 57 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. 3212654 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 11:00 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.