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. 23 shown for “Three-Quarter Figure” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 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.
Amun

Amun

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three-Quarter Figure

Three-Quarter Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Magdalen Repenting

Saint Magdalen Repenting

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gorget

Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
A peasant woman from the neighborhood of Rome, by Miguel Alfarren, Spanish

A peasant woman from the neighborhood of Rome

Miguel Alfarren, Spanish · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627), by Pompeo della Cesa

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627)

Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1595

Public domainThe Met
Study for Christ, Chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study for Christ, Chancel of St. Bartholomew, New York

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1893–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Drawing

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · 1620-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Field and Tournament

Armor for Field and Tournament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
Studies of the Virgin Mary and a Standing Man, by Gugliemo Cortese, 1628 – 1679

Studies of the Virgin Mary and a Standing Man

Gugliemo Cortese, 1628 – 1679 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Panel, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Design for a Painted Panel

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabasset

Cabasset

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a ceiling, by Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735

Design for a ceiling

Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet

Close Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Five Circular Representations of Young Women, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster

Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Putto, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch for Putto

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1893–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65

Public domainThe Met
Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure

Old Man Seen from Behind, Profile to Right: Half Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

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
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. 507 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. 148 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 09:59 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.