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 Prodigal is Banqueted (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:30 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 Prodigal is Banqueted (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal is Banqueted (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Prodigal Son, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Prodigal Son

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal is Given the Best Coat (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal is Given the Best Coat (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Return of the Prodigal Son

Return of the Prodigal Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Gambles (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Gambles (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Sets Out (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Sets Out (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1496

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal as a Swineherd (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal as a Swineherd (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Seeks Work (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Seeks Work (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Bids Farewell (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Bids Farewell (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

The Prodigal Receives His Share (one of eight scenes from the story of the Prodigal Son)

Artist not stated in the record · 1532, possibly some 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son among Swine

The Prodigal Son among Swine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Siesta, by Paul Gauguin

The Siesta

Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

Public domainThe Met
Fire screen

Fire screen

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 383 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3188214 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 13:30 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.