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, Porticoes with View of a Park” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:25 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.
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Porticoes with View of a Park

Stage Design, Porticoes with View of a Park

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man Holding a Book, by Master of the View of Saint Gudula

Young Man Holding a Book

Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Building Adjoining Park Scenery

Stage Design, Building Adjoining Park Scenery

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design of the Elevation of a Pergola, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design of the Elevation of a Pergola

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

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, Palace Courtyards and Staircases

Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View near Rouen, by Richard Parkes Bonington

View near Rouen

Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Alternate Views of a Domed Building with Portico

Alternate Views of a Domed Building with Portico

Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1700

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

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Portico with Monument

Stage Design, Portico with Monument

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias

Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

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. 391 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. 4223873 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 2026-09-05 05:25 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.