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. 15 shown for “St. Antonius of Padua” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:19 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.
Bronze portrait of a man

Bronze portrait of a man

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
St. Antonius of Padua

St. Antonius of Padua

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar Painting, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666

Project for an Altar Painting

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · 1700–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Pendant with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Anthony of Padua, by Eighteenth-Century Novice, active late 18th century

Saint Anthony of Padua

Eighteenth-Century Novice, active late 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with St. Joseph, by Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

Virgin and Child with St. Joseph

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Carthusian seal stamp with depiction of St. Bruno and St. Antony of Padua

Carthusian seal stamp with depiction of St. Bruno and St. Antony of Padua

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century?

Public domainThe Met
Twisted-stem spoon

Twisted-stem spoon

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
The Villa Loredan, Paese, by Francesco Guardi

The Villa Loredan, Paese

Francesco Guardi · early 1780s

Public domainThe Met
St. Theresa, by Antonius Wierix III

St. Theresa

Antonius Wierix III · ca. 1614–22

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. 121 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. 2927824 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:19 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.