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 “Sleeping Venus and Cupid” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 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.
Venus, by Massimiliano Soldani

Venus

Massimiliano Soldani · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Venus and Cupid and Satyr, Study after Correggio

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for the Judgement of Paris

Sketches for the Judgement of Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Venus and Cupid

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1525–27

Public domainThe Met
Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Adonis, by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Venus and Adonis

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid, by Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533

Venus and Cupid

Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1528

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Venus and Cupid

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Psyche, by Antonio Canova

Cupid and Psyche

Antonio Canova · 1794

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Sleeping Cupid, by Hans Stutte

Venus and Sleeping Cupid

Hans Stutte · 1600–1625

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan, by Gérard de Lairesse, Dutch, 1641–1711

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, Dutch, 1641–1711 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Psyche, by Auguste Rodin

Cupid and Psyche

Auguste Rodin · before 1893

Public domainThe Met
Cupid and Psyche, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Cupid and Psyche

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Adonis, by Peter Paul Rubens

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus Marina, Cupid at Her Side, by Benedetto Pistrucci

Venus Marina, Cupid at Her Side

Benedetto Pistrucci · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mercury and Cupid, by Francesco Fanelli

Mercury and Cupid

Francesco Fanelli · late 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 314 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1464420 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 08:58 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.