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 “Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 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.
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, by Caspar David Friedrich

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses

Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

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
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

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
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

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
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

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
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

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
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna...., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

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

Drawing

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

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

Drawing

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Panneau de Cabinet, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Panneau de Cabinet

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

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. 302 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. 2051379 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 09:25 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.