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 “Angélique Moitte” — 42 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:45 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.
Fishing, by Angélique Moitte

Fishing

Angélique Moitte · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Maison de Mr. Moitte à Mante par Mr. Happe Architect, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Maison de Mr. Moitte à Mante par Mr. Happe Architect

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tempest, by Angélique Moitte

Tempest

Angélique Moitte · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Maison de Mr. Moitte à Mantes par Mr. Happe Architecte, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Maison de Mr. Moitte à Mantes par Mr. Happe Architecte

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Frieze, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Design for a Frieze

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · ca. 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sagesse de Louis XVI, by Pierre Étienne Moitte, French, born Paris, France 1722-died Paris, France 1780

Sagesse de Louis XVI

Pierre Étienne Moitte, French, born Paris, France 1722-died Paris, France 1780 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Michel Angelique Brouard, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Michel Angelique Brouard

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Panel, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Design for a Painted Panel

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Panel, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Design for a Painted Panel

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Panel, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Design for a Panel

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angelique Lionnais, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Angelique Lionnais

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Panel, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810

Design for a Painted Panel

Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boëtes ou Tabatieres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Boëtes ou Tabatieres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boëtes ou Tabatieres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Boëtes ou Tabatieres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 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. 83 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 14:45 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.