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. 12 shown for “The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:09 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Figure of the "Immaculate Virgin" ("Immaculata") on Pedestal, by Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory, German, 1764 - 1789

Figure of the "Immaculate Virgin" ("Immaculata") on Pedestal

Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory, German, 1764 - 1789 · 1770–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Column of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Column of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868–May 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish, active Italy, 1591 – 1652

The Immaculate Conception

Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish, active Italy, 1591 – 1652 · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God the Father Receiving the Madonna of the Immaculate Conception, by Carlo Carlone, Italian, born Scaria, Italy 1686-died Come, Italy 1775

God the Father Receiving the Madonna of the Immaculate Conception

Carlo Carlone, Italian, born Scaria, Italy 1686-died Come, Italy 1775 · ca. 1720-1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Circular Medallion With the Immaculate Conception, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

A Circular Medallion With the Immaculate Conception

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chapel, with Figures of Charity, the Virgin, and Saints

Side Chapel, with Figures of Charity, the Virgin, and Saints

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804

The Immaculate Conception

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Processional Staff

Design for a Processional Staff

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus eragrostis Lam.

Cyperus eragrostis Lam.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birth of the Virgin

Birth of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2992563 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-27 12:09 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.