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 “Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:24 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.
Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)

Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle, by Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809

Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle

Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tomb, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of a Tomb

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285), by Jean d'Arras

Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285)

Jean d'Arras · 1297–1307

Public domainThe Met
Deer Hunt with Nets, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Deer Hunt with Nets

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Slab

Inscribed Slab

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp, by Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp

Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk

Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk

Artist not stated in the record · 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Public domainThe Met
Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Distant View of the Royal Tombs, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Distant View of the Royal Tombs, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an Inscribed Slab

Fragment of an Inscribed Slab

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
6c Father Marquette plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

6c Father Marquette plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · June 4, 1968

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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3866161 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-31 20:24 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.