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. 15 shown for “Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885” — 43 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:49 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.
A Cavalryman, by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville

A Cavalryman

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry, by Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885

Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry

Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch-Bearer, by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville

The Dispatch-Bearer

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Design for embroidery or tapestry, by Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885

Design for embroidery or tapestry

Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Cartridges, from "L'Univers Illustré", by Louis Paul Pierre Dumont

The Last Cartridges, from "L'Univers Illustré"

Louis Paul Pierre Dumont · June 21, 1873

Public domainThe Met
Le Peintre

Le Peintre

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flood, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

The Flood, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander the Great, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Alexander the Great, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Leaders, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Great Leaders, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Great Writers, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith (Devotion, Courage), Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Judith (Devotion, Courage), Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gutenberg, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes", by Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c.

Gutenberg, Playing Card from Set of "Cartes héroïques" or "Des grands hommes"

Marcel G. Dèschampes, French, active 19th c. · 1871

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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 719875 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-08 10:49 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.