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. 23 shown for “The Circumcision in the Stable” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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 Circumcision in the Stable, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Circumcision in the Stable

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Public domainThe Met
The Circumcision in the Stable

The Circumcision in the Stable

Artist not stated in the record · 1654

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stable, by Charles Jacque

Stable

Charles Jacque · 1848

Public domainThe Met
The Circumcision

The Circumcision

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circumcision, by Laurent de La Hyre

Circumcision

Laurent de La Hyre

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circumcision, by Aegidius Sadeler II

Circumcision

Aegidius Sadeler II · 1590

Public domainThe Met
Palepai (ship cloth)

Palepai (ship cloth)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circumcision, by Aegidius Sadeler II

Circumcision

Aegidius Sadeler II · 1590

Public domainThe Met
In the Stable, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

In the Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Depicting Meryneith Inspecting His Stables and Ships Unloading Merchandise, from his tomb at Saqqara

Relief Depicting Meryneith Inspecting His Stables and Ships Unloading Merchandise, from his tomb at Saqqara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Stable, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

The Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1589 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Circumcision

The Circumcision

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–70

Public domainThe Met
Farm Buildings, Germany, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Farm Buildings, Germany

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Circumcision

Roundel with the Circumcision

Artist not stated in the record · 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Stable at Cuenca, by John Singer Sargent, born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925

Stable at Cuenca

John Singer Sargent, born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit

Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stables of the Duc d'Orléans, Plate 76 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris", by Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

Stables of the Duc d'Orléans, Plate 76 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"

Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

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. 459 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483436 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:15 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.