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. 23 shown for “The Holy Family and St. John” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:46 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 Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and St. John

The Holy Family and St. John

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th–mid- 17th century

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
The Holy Family, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

The Holy Family

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Catherine; St. John the Baptist, after Guercino; St. George and the Dragon, After Alessandro Tiarini; Two Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine; St. John the Baptist, after Guercino; St. George and the Dragon, After Alessandro Tiarini; Two Putti

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

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 Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth

The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

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

Public domainThe Met
Holy Family with St. John

Holy Family with St. John

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint John

The Holy Family with Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Shepherds, by Jacob Jordaens

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint John

The Holy Family with Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Lunette of Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette of Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–23

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 Holy Family with John the Baptist, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Holy Family with John the Baptist

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim, by Diego de Pesquera

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim

Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68

Public domainThe Met
Holy Family, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Holy Family

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John the Evangelist, by Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

St. John the Evangelist

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Robert Loftin Newman, born Richmond, VA 1827-died New York City 1912

The Holy Family

Robert Loftin Newman, born Richmond, VA 1827-died New York City 1912 · n.d.

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
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. 9129 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. 2152625 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 13:46 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.