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. 20 shown for “The Dying Savior” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:06 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.
Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Dying Savior

The Dying Savior

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Saint Joseph and the Infant Savior

Saint Joseph and the Infant Savior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Christ as Savior of the World

Roundel with Christ as Savior of the World

Artist not stated in the record · 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
The Savior, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

The Savior

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1900-1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer, by Jan van Goyen

View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer

Jan van Goyen · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Erinaceus europaeus

Erinaceus europaeus

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mexican Girl Dying, by Thomas Crawford

Mexican Girl Dying

Thomas Crawford · By 1846; carved 1848

Public domainThe Met
The Dying Tecumseh, by Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872

The Dying Tecumseh

Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · modeled ca. 1837-1846, carved 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with Gloves, by Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished design for a memorial sheet referring to erection of a papal factory (Magazins of Annona), by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Unfinished design for a memorial sheet referring to erection of a papal factory (Magazins of Annona)

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1760–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

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. 9961 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. 1185434 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 02:06 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.