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. 20 shown for “The Triumph of Time over Fame” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 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 Triumph of Time over Fame

The Triumph of Time over Fame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1530

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1825

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
Design for a Painted Ceiling: Triumph of Meekness and Strength, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

Design for a Painted Ceiling: Triumph of Meekness and Strength

Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Hull

Hull

Artist not stated in the record · 1813–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame

The Triumph of Fame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1502–4

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Love over Time, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

The Triumph of Love over Time

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
The Triumph of Venus designed for the bedroom of Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Triumph of Venus designed for the bedroom of Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fame, by Luca Cambiaso

Fame

Luca Cambiaso · mid- to late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Project for Ceiling: Tondo with Triumph of Cerus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project for Ceiling: Tondo with Triumph of Cerus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Denim bucket hat worn by Jimmie Walker as J.J. Evans on Good Times, by Rita Riggs, American, born 1930

Denim bucket hat worn by Jimmie Walker as J.J. Evans on Good Times

Rita Riggs, American, born 1930 · 1974-1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
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 Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Annunciation

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

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. 5390 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. 2988770 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:45 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.