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 Supper at Emmaus” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:38 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 Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
The Supper at Emmaus

The Supper at Emmaus

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus

The Supper at Emmaus

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Supper at Emmaus

The Supper at Emmaus

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Fruit, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Basket of Fruit

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Supper at Emmaus, by Carlo Maratti, Italian, born Camerano, Italy 1625-died Rome, Italy 1713

Supper at Emmaus

Carlo Maratti, Italian, born Camerano, Italy 1625-died Rome, Italy 1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Supper at Emmaus

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Supper at Emmaus, by H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928

Supper at Emmaus

H. Siddons Mowbray, born Alexandria, Egypt 1858-died Washington, CT 1928 · 1915-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Bonifacio de' Pitati (Bonifacio Veronese)

The Supper at Emmaus

Bonifacio de' Pitati (Bonifacio Veronese) · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Christ at Emmaus, by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, born Leiden, Netherlands 1606-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1669

Christ at Emmaus

Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, born Leiden, Netherlands 1606-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1669 · 1654*

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses presenting the tablets of law, by Valentin Bousch

Moses presenting the tablets of law

Valentin Bousch · 1532

Public domainThe Met
And He Disappeared out of Their Sight, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

And He Disappeared out of Their Sight

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · ca. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage among Trees, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Cottage among Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Christ at Emmaus: The Larger Plate

Christ at Emmaus: The Larger Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1654

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Bernard van Orley

The Last Supper

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28

Public domainThe Met
Christ at Emmaus: The Smaller Plate

Christ at Emmaus: The Smaller Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1634

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

The Last Supper

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Christ at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series

Christ at Emmaus, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
The Last Supper, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

The Last Supper

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · 1746–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Scenes at Emmaus

Plaque with Scenes at Emmaus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 850–900

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Argythamnia fasciculata (Vahl ex Juss.) Müll. Arg.

Argythamnia fasciculata (Vahl ex Juss.) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1990

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. 166 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. 1307373 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 11:38 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.