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, Buildings on Riverside” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:40 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.
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Buildings on Riverside

Stage Design, Buildings on Riverside

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Exterior of Circular Building

Stage Design: Exterior of Circular Building

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Temples on Riverside

Stage Design, Temples on Riverside

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Design for a Stage Set

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Public domainThe Met
River Landscape with Two Buildings Connected by a Bridge

River Landscape with Two Buildings Connected by a Bridge

Artist not stated in the record · 1525

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Stits SA-2A Sky Baby, by Ray Stits

Stits SA-2A Sky Baby

Ray Stits

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, View of Town on Hillside

Stage Design, View of Town on Hillside

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Temple Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Temple Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape, by Antonio Mauro II

Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape

Antonio Mauro II · 1784–97

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Buildings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Antique Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

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

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Buildings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1831

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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1540162 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 09:40 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.