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 Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:27 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 Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece (reverse copy), by Francesco Novelli

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece (reverse copy)

Francesco Novelli · late 18th–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
The Flight Into Egypt: A Night Piece

The Flight Into Egypt: A Night Piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1651

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

The Flight into Egypt

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Public domainThe Met
The Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

The Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1651

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Pier Francesco Mola

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Pier Francesco Mola · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1767–70

Public domainThe Met
Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Carlo Maratti

The Flight into Egypt

Carlo Maratti · ca. 1664

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child, by Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857

Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child

Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857 · 1820–1850

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
Flight into Egypt, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Flight into Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1916-1922

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set mallets from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Night-Shining White, by Han Gan

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of airmail pilot Paul Collins and bag of first overnight airmail

Photograph of airmail pilot Paul Collins and bag of first overnight airmail

Artist not stated in the record · July 1, 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
The Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · 1470–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game of Hounds and Jackals

Game of Hounds and Jackals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt, by Albrecht Altdorfer, German, ca. 1480–1538

The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

Albrecht Altdorfer, German, ca. 1480–1538 · 1520

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. 1026 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. 3045156 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 00:27 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.