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 “Virgin or Holy Woman” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:53 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.
Virgin or Holy Woman

Virgin or Holy Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Mariano Rossi, Italian, 1731–1807

The Holy Family

Mariano Rossi, Italian, 1731–1807 · ca. 1730–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Woman, by Master of Rimini

Holy Woman

Master of Rimini · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Study for an Altarpiece: the Madonna Worshipped by Saints and, Possibly, Donors

Study for an Altarpiece: the Madonna Worshipped by Saints and, Possibly, Donors

Artist not stated in the record · 1530–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child Entrhoned, with the Holy Spirit, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child Entrhoned, with the Holy Spirit

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman, by Lorenzo Mosca

Woman

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Holy Family, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Holy Family

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580-1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
The Descent of the Holy Spirit (The Pentecost), from The Little Passion Series

The Descent of the Holy Spirit (The Pentecost), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family, by Niclaus Weckmann

Holy Family

Niclaus Weckmann · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and St. John

The Holy Family and St. John

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th–mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Woman and Child (Virgin and Child?), by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Woman and Child (Virgin and Child?)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni)

Virgin and Child

Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni) · ca. 1464–69

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Butterfly

The Holy Family with Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and a Female Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family and a Female Saint

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family

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. 414 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. 284415 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-06 11:53 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.