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 “Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:51 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.
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancers Practicing at the Barre, by Edgar Degas

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Edgar Degas · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sulking, by Edgar Degas

Sulking

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1937

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
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1936

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
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portia, by Sir John Everett Millais

Portia

Sir John Everett Millais · 1886

Public domainThe Met
Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Swertia montana (Mulford) H. St. John

Swertia montana (Mulford) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent labret with articulated tongue, by Mexica artist(s)

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Atriplex gardneri var. utahensis (M.E. Jones) Dorn

Atriplex gardneri var. utahensis (M.E. Jones) Dorn

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable", by Edgar Degas

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

Edgar Degas · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Cymopterus utahensis M.E. Jones

Cymopterus utahensis M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838–1893), by Edgar Degas

Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838–1893)

Edgar Degas · 1869

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1907

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1239385 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 23:51 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.