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 “Study: The left hand of a monk” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:58 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.
Crowned Buddha

Crowned Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Study: The left hand of a monk

Study: The left hand of a monk

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Kneeling Monk, by Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714

Studies for a Kneeling Monk

Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
The left arm of a monk and his left hand

The left arm of a monk and his left hand

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1763–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
St. Bruno in Ecstasy

St. Bruno in Ecstasy

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hand, by Auguste Rodin

Hand

Auguste Rodin · modeled possibly ca. 1886–89

Public domainThe Met
The Jacobite's Journal

The Jacobite's Journal

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child Saint Sambandar

Child Saint Sambandar

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siren, by Colonna

Siren

Colonna · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for a wall paiting: Two sainted monks

Sketch for a wall paiting: Two sainted monks

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
study of a costumed figure, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

study of a costumed figure

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Seated Nude, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Studies of a Seated Nude

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla

Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla

Artist not stated in the record · 212–217 CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Studies of Hand for Angel Appearing to St. Peter in "Early Christian Martyrs", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Two Studies of Hand for Angel Appearing to St. Peter in "Early Christian Martyrs"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1839–40

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. 13266 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. 3953994 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-08 16:58 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.