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 “U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]” — 23 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:51 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Mitromorpha undulata

Mitromorpha undulata

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Men of Progress, by Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
The Love Letter, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Love Letter

Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Public domainThe Met
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 01:51 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.