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, Prison in Gothic Building” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:51 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.
Gothic Doorway

Gothic Doorway

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison in Gothic Building

Stage Design, Prison in Gothic Building

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan, by Wenzel von Olmütz

Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan

Wenzel von Olmütz · 1490–99

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
Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius

Bernardo Daddi · ca. 1338–40

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
Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons

Bernardo Daddi

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
Saint Reparata Being Prepared for Execution, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata Being Prepared for Execution

Bernardo Daddi

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
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by John and Joseph W. Meeks

Armchair

John and Joseph W. Meeks · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Gothic Palace, Church, and Fortress, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Gothic Palace, Church, and Fortress

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

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Stage Designs: Detail of Gothic Interior, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Designs: Detail of Gothic Interior

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 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 a Prison

Stage Design, Interior of a Prison

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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. 394 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7463582 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 07:51 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.