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 “Achille Collas” — 49 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:12 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.
George Washington, by Achille Collas

George Washington

Achille Collas · 1830–83

Public domainThe Met
Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the Galleria di Achille, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Italy, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the Galleria di Achille, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Italy

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll

Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
"Achille reconnu par Ulysse", by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

"Achille reconnu par Ulysse"

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Priam in the Tent of Achilles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Priam in the Tent of Achilles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin (Thaler, Annaberg) Showing Maurice, Duke and Elector of Saxony

Coin (Thaler, Annaberg) Showing Maurice, Duke and Elector of Saxony

Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Pierre Achilles Rivery, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Pierre Achilles Rivery

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal Showing Henry II of France

Medal Showing Henry II of France

Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Achille Rivard, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Achille Rivard

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal Showing Henry IV of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis (1573–1642), by Guillaume Dupré

Medal Showing Henry IV of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis (1573–1642)

Guillaume Dupré · dated 1603

Public domainThe Met
Agamemnon Refuses to Liberate Chryseis; Minerva Appears to Achilles; The Abduction of Briseis: Galerie d'Iliad, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Agamemnon Refuses to Liberate Chryseis; Minerva Appears to Achilles; The Abduction of Briseis: Galerie d'Iliad, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin (Thaler) Showing Prince Sigismund Báthori

Coin (Thaler) Showing Prince Sigismund Báthori

Artist not stated in the record · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Thetis in the Workshop of Hephaestus; Thetis Showing the Armor to Achilles: Two Designs for Ceiling Panels in the Galeria d'Iliade, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Thetis in the Workshop of Hephaestus; Thetis Showing the Armor to Achilles: Two Designs for Ceiling Panels in the Galeria d'Iliade, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achilles Drags the Body of Hector, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buffe

Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Achilles Yields Briseis, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Achilles Yields Briseis

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thetis Gives Achilles in Charge of Chiron, by William Miers, n.d.

Thetis Gives Achilles in Charge of Chiron

William Miers, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François Achille Bazaine

François Achille Bazaine

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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 · 0 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. 1318 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 13:12 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.