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. 12 shown for “Stage Design, Sepulchral Hall” — 40 records examined, 0 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stage Design, Sepulchral Hall

Stage Design, Sepulchral Hall

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Exterior of Palace, Sepulchral Hall, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Exterior of Palace, Sepulchral Hall

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of a Sepulchral Hall, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Interior of a Sepulchral Hall

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Church Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

View of Church Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1742–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Artist not stated in the record · after 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Burial Chamber of Persian Kings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Burial Chamber of Persian Kings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sepulchral Crest or Timepiece, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Crest or Timepiece

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Sepulchral Monument Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Sepulchral (Funerary) Monument Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Design for a Sepulchral (Funerary) Wall Mounted Monument

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 672470 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 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.