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 Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:08 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.
Helmet with Aventail

Helmet with Aventail

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul

The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, by Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul

Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian, 1734–1802 · 1770–80

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
Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Paul

Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Paul

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
St. Balbina from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Balbina from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Hope from the loggia at St. Peter's, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Hope from the loggia at St. Peter's

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

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

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
Design for a Candelabrum, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candelabrum

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1754

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
Dome of St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincian Hill, Rome, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Dome of St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincian Hill, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

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
A North West View of St Pauls Cathedral London, by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

A North West View of St Pauls Cathedral London

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

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. 4985 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 3319936 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 19:08 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.