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, Interior of Building” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 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.
Roman Interior, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Roman Interior

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Building

Stage Design, Interior of Building

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breastplate, by Giovan Paolo Negroli

Breastplate

Giovan Paolo Negroli · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Building

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance 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, Interior of Circular Building, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of Circular Building

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 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, Interior of Circular Building, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Interior of Circular Building

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 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: Interiors of Gothic Building, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design: Interiors of Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings

Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Building, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Building

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Herman Doomer

Cabinet

Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19 century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Stone Interior with Stairway

Stage Design, Stone Interior with Stairway

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Interior

Stage Design, Palace Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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, Ruined Farm Building Interior, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Ruined Farm Building Interior

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · 1810–30

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. 533 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3219942 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 07:03 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.