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 “Veronica hederifolia L.” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:02 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.
Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica

Roundel with Christ Carrying the Cross with Saint Veronica

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coverlet and two matching bolster covers

Coverlet and two matching bolster covers

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veronica's Veil

Veronica's Veil

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Veronica with the Sudarium, after Michelangelo, by Nicolas Beatrizet

St. Veronica with the Sudarium, after Michelangelo

Nicolas Beatrizet · 1540–66

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Road to Calvary, at center Veronica kneels before Christ and holding the Sudarium, by Coryn Boel

Road to Calvary, at center Veronica kneels before Christ and holding the Sudarium

Coryn Boel · ca. 1656–1660

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turtle Vessel, by Colima artist(s)

Turtle Vessel

Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a bearded man

Limestone head of a bearded man

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Veronica hederifolia L.

Veronica hederifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 62 matched · 24 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. 1292897 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 2026-09-01 17:02 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.