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. 14 shown for “Aimé Millet” — 43 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:22 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.
Anatole de la Forge, by Aimé Millet

Anatole de la Forge

Aimé Millet · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Francis Davis Millet, by George Willoughby Maynard, 1843 - 1923

Francis Davis Millet

George Willoughby Maynard, 1843 - 1923 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sleep, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Sleep

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1867–70

Public domainThe Met
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone

Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francis Davis Millet, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907

Francis Davis Millet

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Fileuse

La Fileuse

Artist not stated in the record · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maison de Millet, by Frank Edwin Scott, born Buffalo, NY 1863-died Paris, France 1929

Maison de Millet

Frank Edwin Scott, born Buffalo, NY 1863-died Paris, France 1929 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room Interior with Winding Staircase, by Francis Davis Millet, born Mattapoisett, MA 1846-died at sea 1912

Room Interior with Winding Staircase

Francis Davis Millet, born Mattapoisett, MA 1846-died at sea 1912 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, by Gruber, Martin A

Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, by Gruber, Martin A

Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidney Dillon, by Francis Davis Millet, 3 Nov 1846 - 15 Apr 1912

Sidney Dillon

Francis Davis Millet, 3 Nov 1846 - 15 Apr 1912 · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seaweed Gatherers, by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Seaweed Gatherers

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · 1898?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Simon Butler, the American Mazeppa, by Millet, Jean Francois

Simon Butler, the American Mazeppa

Millet, Jean Francois

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1754–1758

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1023 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 01:22 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.