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. 12 shown for “Andrew Best Leloir” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Hamlet and Horatio, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque", by Andrew Best Leloir

Hamlet and Horatio, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

Andrew Best Leloir · December 1837

Public domainThe Met
Le Diable a Paris. . . Paris et Les Parisiens, Vol. II, by Andrew Best Leloir

Le Diable a Paris. . . Paris et Les Parisiens, Vol. II

Andrew Best Leloir · 1846

Public domainThe Met
He tells us: don't cry, Act!, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

He tells us: don't cry, Act!, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
What do you say about the butterfly hunt?, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

What do you say about the butterfly hunt?, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
Friends, the wise one places his glory in eating well, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

Friends, the wise one places his glory in eating well, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
The author of this attack is a delicate little wolf, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

The author of this attack is a delicate little wolf, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
... and soon formed a fantastic round, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

... and soon formed a fantastic round, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
Instead of all this..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

Instead of all this..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
The Beautiful World of the Tuileries, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

The Beautiful World of the Tuileries, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
A very well put insect and beautiful dancer, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

A very well put insect and beautiful dancer, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
This is what the men call a church rat, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

This is what the men call a church rat, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
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. 125 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 19:59 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.