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 “A Villefranche-sur-Mer (Environs de Carqueiranne)” — 49 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 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.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
A Villefranche-sur-Mer (Environs de Carqueiranne)

A Villefranche-sur-Mer (Environs de Carqueiranne)

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux

Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Laurencia obtusa f. gracilis

Laurencia obtusa f. gracilis

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue d'un temple... dédié à Diane from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples, by Adélaide Allou

Vue d'un temple... dédié à Diane from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples

Adélaide Allou · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackh.) Grev.

Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackh.) Grev.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue des debris des bains de Neron from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples, by Adélaide Allou

Vue des debris des bains de Neron from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples

Adélaide Allou · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sporochnus pedunculatus (Huds.) C. Agardh

Sporochnus pedunculatus (Huds.) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman (La Servante), by Auguste Renoir

Young Woman (La Servante)

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Spermatochnus paradoxus

Spermatochnus paradoxus

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Griffithsia phyllamphora

Griffithsia phyllamphora

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Surroundings of Regio in Calabria, by Joseph Vernet

View of the Surroundings of Regio in Calabria

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Pterosiphonia pennata (C. Agardh) Sauv.

Pterosiphonia pennata (C. Agardh) Sauv.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caulacanthus ustulatus (Mert. ex Turner) Kütz.

Caulacanthus ustulatus (Mert. ex Turner) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phyllophora crispa

Phyllophora crispa

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polysiphonia subulifera

Polysiphonia subulifera

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cladophora prolifera (Roth) Kütz.

Cladophora prolifera (Roth) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1938

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 616221 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:49 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.