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 Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 07:04 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 Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus

The Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
The Resurrection of Lazarus

The Resurrection of Lazarus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1508

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet, by Kongo artist

Bracelet

Kongo artist · 17th-18th century

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
Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, by Lawrence W. Ladd, active 1865-1895

Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Lawrence W. Ladd, active 1865-1895 · ca. 1880

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
The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple

The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Raising of Lazarus, by Jacques Bellange

The Raising of Lazarus

Jacques Bellange · ca. 1606–8

Public domainThe Met
Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair), by Franz Fischer

Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)

Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yugoyoji Temple (Fugisawa), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Print, Seven Famous Cartoons of Raphael

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1659

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital

Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Worn Shoe Sole

Worn Shoe Sole

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Printing Apparatus for the Blind, by Johnson, Daniel A.

Patent Model of a Printing Apparatus for the Blind

Johnson, Daniel A. · ca 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

S. Peter and S. John Healing the Lame at the Gate of the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · 1513

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. 693 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. 3206826 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-06 07:04 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.