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. 17 shown for “Stockwell Family Member, n.d.” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:46 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.
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Register of Ira Harrison Stockwell, by Stockwell Family Member, n.d.

Register of Ira Harrison Stockwell

Stockwell Family Member, n.d. · after 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Levi Mentzer Born May 3, 1811, by Mentzer Family Member, n.d.

Levi Mentzer Born May 3, 1811

Mentzer Family Member, n.d. · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
IN MEMORY OF BELOVED PARENTS OLOFF AND BETSEY HANSON, by Hanson Family Member, n.d.

IN MEMORY OF BELOVED PARENTS OLOFF AND BETSEY HANSON

Hanson Family Member, n.d. · after 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Mother of Henry O. Tanner, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Mother of Henry O. Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Pinus x attenuradiata Stockw. & Righter

Pinus x attenuradiata Stockw. & Righter

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim, by Diego de Pesquera

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim

Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Public domainThe Met
A Peasant Family, by Antoine Le Nain

A Peasant Family

Antoine Le Nain · ca. 1640–48

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Old Woman, by Orazio Borgianni

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen, by Andrea Mantegna

The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen

Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1495–1500

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 300 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. 54890 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 17:46 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.