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 Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:16 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.
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes

The Virgin and Child in Swaddling Clothes

Artist not stated in the record · 1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin, by Joan Avesta

Virgin

Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Boy and a Swaddled Child

Portrait of a Boy and a Swaddled Child

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Claus de Werve

Virgin and Child

Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin With the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin With the Child

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

Public domainThe Met
Sketch, the Virgin with the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketch, the Virgin with the Child

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Virgin and Child, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Standing Virgin and Child

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Putti playing before a herm, by Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754

Putti playing before a herm

Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754 · 1750–1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
In Swaddlings, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

In Swaddlings

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–90

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. 1352 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. 7484939 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-07 09:16 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.