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 “The Feast of the Drawing of Water” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:48 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.
Water, by Jean-Pierre Defrance

Water

Jean-Pierre Defrance · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
The Feast of the Drawing of Water

The Feast of the Drawing of Water

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Feast of the Ascension celebration, Venice, Italy, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Feast of the Ascension celebration, Venice, Italy

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1879–1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Feast of the Ascension celebration, Venice, Italy, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Feast of the Ascension celebration, Venice, Italy

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1879–1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Feast of the Gods, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Feast of the Gods

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: The Country Feast [La Fête Champêtre], by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Cartoon for cotton printing: The Country Feast [La Fête Champêtre]

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo

The elevation of a tower-like structure for a firework at the feast of St. Rosalia in Palermo

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Men Feasting

Men Feasting

Artist not stated in the record · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marriage of the Virgin [left]; Marriage Feast at Cana [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Marriage of the Virgin [left]; Marriage Feast at Cana [right]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Marriage Feast at Cana

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Acheloüs, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1547

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. 36430 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2996101 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-10 17:48 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.