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. 17 shown for “Yashoda with the Infant Krishna” — 50 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 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.
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Krishna Vishvarupa

Krishna Vishvarupa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yashoda and Gopal

Yashoda and Gopal

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celebrating the birth of Krishna (Janmashtami)

Celebrating the birth of Krishna (Janmashtami)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–83

Public domainThe Met
Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Janmastami

Janmastami

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series, by Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century)

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series

Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a jewelry casket: Krishna slays Putana

Panel from a jewelry casket: Krishna slays Putana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya, by Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697)

Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya

Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697) · dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu), by Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Virgin, Infant, and Joseph with an Angel Playing on a Violin

Virgin, Infant, and Joseph with an Angel Playing on a Violin

Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Krishna's Parents Search for Him

Krishna's Parents Search for Him

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Virgin, Infant, and Saint John

Virgin, Infant, and Saint John

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting

Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1293447 matched · 40 examined · 32 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.