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 with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:17 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

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
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
The Holy Family, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

The Holy Family, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

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 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
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 with Saint John

The Holy Family with Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · after 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796), by Johan Adolph Grecke

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)

Johan Adolph Grecke · 1786

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
Flintlock Gun, by Louis Jaley

Flintlock Gun

Louis Jaley · dated 1735

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
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, Saint John the Baptist, and Another Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family, Saint John the Baptist, and Another Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

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

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 Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and a Female Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family and a Female Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

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
Saint Ansanus, by Simone Martini

Saint Ansanus

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Family register sampler

Family register sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

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. 2953 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. 2149497 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 15:17 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.