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. 24 shown for “Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:18 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 Toilet of Venus, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

The Toilet of Venus

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ewers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Designs for Ewers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape in a Frame, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Landscape in a Frame

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1542–45

Public domainThe Met
Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval landscape in an ornate frame, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Oval landscape in an ornate frame

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1542–45

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick Designs, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Candlestick Designs, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Metamorphosis of Syrinx, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

The Metamorphosis of Syrinx

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Nef Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Nef Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus Bathing, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Venus Bathing

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fountain Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Fountain Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Satyr Pursuing a Nymph, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

A Satyr Pursuing a Nymph

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Magdalen carried to Heaven, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Mary Magdalen carried to Heaven

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contest between Apollo and Marsyas, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Contest between Apollo and Marsyas

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1543

Public domainThe Met
LES CASCADES DE FONTAINEBLEAU, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LES CASCADES DE FONTAINEBLEAU

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1660–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

The Birth of the Virgin

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agamemnon killing Odios, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

Agamemnon killing Odios

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · ca. 1545

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cutlery Containers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Cutlery Containers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

The Birth of the Virgin

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
French carved bird stamp box and inkwell

French carved bird stamp box and inkwell

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th - early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
People Fleeing a Burning City, by Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

People Fleeing a Burning City

Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Veüe de la Cour des Fonteines et du Jardin de l’Estang à Fonteine-Bleau, by Israel Silvestre, French, 1621 – 1691

Veüe de la Cour des Fonteines et du Jardin de l’Estang à Fonteine-Bleau

Israel Silvestre, French, 1621 – 1691 · 1660–1703

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. 1961 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2908626 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 09:18 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.