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 “St. Jerome in Penitence” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 11:53 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 Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome in Penitence

St. Jerome in Penitence

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence, by Israhel van Meckenem

Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence

Israhel van Meckenem · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Mary Magdalene Penitent

St. Mary Magdalene Penitent

Artist not stated in the record · 1585

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome as Scholar, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia prostrata Poir.

Ruellia prostrata Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, by Antonio Rossellino

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Penitent Man Choosing Good over Evil [left]; Spirit of the Penitent Man Ascending to Heaven [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Penitent Man Choosing Good over Evil [left]; Spirit of the Penitent Man Ascending to Heaven [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1587–1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Jerome, by Lucas van Leyden

St. Jerome

Lucas van Leyden · 1513

Public domainThe Met
San Juan Nepomuceno, by Master of "La Merced", active 18th century

San Juan Nepomuceno

Master of "La Merced", active 18th century · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy

St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy

Artist not stated in the record · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of St. Jerome, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Penitence of St. Jerome

Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Public domainThe Met
The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Jerome in the Wilderness, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard

St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard

Artist not stated in the record · 1645–1652

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Jerome in the Wilderness, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Public domainThe Met
Penitant Underwing

Penitant Underwing

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome in his Study

St. Jerome in his Study

Artist not stated in the record · 1514

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome with a lion, by Francesco Orlandini

Saint Jerome with a lion

Francesco Orlandini · 1547

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome in His Chamber, by James R. Osgood and Co.

St. Jerome in His Chamber

James R. Osgood and Co.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome, by William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916

St. Jerome

William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · ca. 1872-1879

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. 228 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. 7462156 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-04 11:53 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.