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. 18 shown for “Adolphe Braun et Cie (Firm)” — 46 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 03:56 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.
La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations, by Edouard Baldus

La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations

Edouard Baldus · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935), by Adolphe Braun et Cie (Firm)

Portrait of Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935)

Adolphe Braun et Cie (Firm) · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cows Crossing a Ford, by Jules Dupré

Cows Crossing a Ford

Jules Dupré · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Title Page of the Song "La Rêveuse" by Gaston de Roausset Baulbon with Music by Paul de Lourefourix, by Adolphe Mouilleron, French, 1820 - 1881

Title Page of the Song "La Rêveuse" by Gaston de Roausset Baulbon with Music by Paul de Lourefourix

Adolphe Mouilleron, French, 1820 - 1881 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with mythological figures and arabesques, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Panel with mythological figures and arabesques

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design, by Pignet et Cie

Wallpaper Design

Pignet et Cie · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
Dites Merci, by Meillier et Cie

Dites Merci

Meillier et Cie · ca. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

Commode

Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pygmalion and Galatea, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Psyche et l'amour, by Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848

Psyche et l'amour

Petitpierre et Cie, Nantes, France, 1770–1848 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Botrychium matricariifolium (A. Braun ex Dowell) A. Braun ex Koch

Botrychium matricariifolium (A. Braun ex Dowell) A. Braun ex Koch

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1839 to 20 May 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Botrychium matricariifolium (A. Braun ex Dowell) A. Braun ex Koch

Botrychium matricariifolium (A. Braun ex Dowell) A. Braun ex Koch

Artist not stated in the record · May 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with snowy peaks, by Braun, Adolphe

Landscape with snowy peaks

Braun, Adolphe

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paul et Virginie, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Paul et Virginie

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado, by Pignet et Cie

Dado

Pignet et Cie · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 150238 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-29 03:56 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.