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 “A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 22:00 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.
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · August 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea urn, by P. B., Paris

Tea urn

P. B., Paris · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · September 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun, by J. C. A. Brun

Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun

J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · February 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Statue of a King

Column Statue of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Jean Brandely

Cabinet

Jean Brandely · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

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
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

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. 2637 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. 2564623 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 22:00 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.