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. 21 shown for “The Ecstasy of St. Francis” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:12 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.
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, by Francí Gomar

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló

Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Public domainThe Met
The Ecstasy of St. Francis

The Ecstasy of St. Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy

St. (Jerome?) in Ecstasy

Artist not stated in the record · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Bartholomew and Simon, by Master of Saint Francis

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis · ca. 1272

Public domainThe Met
St. John Writing the Revelation in Ecstasy

St. John Writing the Revelation in Ecstasy

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis, by Federico Barocci

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Public domainThe Met
Ecstasy of St. Theresa after Circle of Francesco Albani, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ecstasy of St. Theresa after Circle of Francesco Albani

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
St. Bruno in Ecstasy

St. Bruno in Ecstasy

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

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
Flier for “Ecstasy Garage Disco” designed by Buddy Esquire, by Buddy Esquire, American, 1959 - 2014

Flier for “Ecstasy Garage Disco” designed by Buddy Esquire

Buddy Esquire, American, 1959 - 2014 · February 17, 1980

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
Flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee’s Birthday”, by Unidentified

Flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee’s Birthday”

Unidentified · October 25, 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), by Sir Francis Chantrey

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)

Sir Francis Chantrey · 1823

Public domainThe Met
A Dominican Female Saint in Ecstasy and Other Studies, by Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790

A Dominican Female Saint in Ecstasy and Other Studies

Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790 · 1770–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed

Eddie Ed, American · November 21, 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
The Visitation, by Master Heinrich of Constance

The Visitation

Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

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. 847 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. 3059343 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 15:12 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.