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. 16 shown for “Andrea Appiani the Elder, Italian, 1754 - 1817” — 44 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 14:28 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 Muses Thalia and Erato, by Andrea Appiani

The Muses Thalia and Erato

Andrea Appiani · 1754–1817

Public domainThe Met
The Head of a Despairing Young Woman, by Andrea Appiani the Elder, Italian, 1754 - 1817

The Head of a Despairing Young Woman

Andrea Appiani the Elder, Italian, 1754 - 1817 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aurora Riding in Her Chariot, by Andrea Appiani

Aurora Riding in Her Chariot

Andrea Appiani · 1754–1817

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Portrait of General Desaix, by Andrea Appiani

Study for the Portrait of General Desaix

Andrea Appiani · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon as General, by Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

Napoleon as General

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Muses Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Clio, and Terpsichore (recto); Sketch of a Sleeping Child (verso), by Andrea Appiani

The Muses Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Clio, and Terpsichore (recto); Sketch of a Sleeping Child (verso)

Andrea Appiani · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Cuvilliés père

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1695–1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'HISTOIRE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

L'HISTOIRE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum", by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1685–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche with Two Laurel Branches, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Two Laurel Branches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche with Two Banners, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Two Banners

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche Topped by Open Crown, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche Topped by Open Crown

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche with Armorial Trophy, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Armorial Trophy

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1196227 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 14:28 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.