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. 18 shown for “Antoine Caron” — 46 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 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.
Diana with Attributes of the Hunt, by Antoine Caron

Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

Antoine Caron · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Campsiandra comosa var. laurifolia (Benth.) R.S. Cowan

Campsiandra comosa var. laurifolia (Benth.) R.S. Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple, by Antoine Caron

A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple

Antoine Caron · 1521–99

Public domainThe Met
Belisarius, by Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832

Belisarius

Jean-Louis-Toussaint Caron (French, 1790-1832), French, 1790 – 1832 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Two Statues from a set of the Story of Artemisia, by Antoine Caron

The Two Statues from a set of the Story of Artemisia

Antoine Caron · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.

Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1900 to 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs...", by Thomas de Leu

Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs..."

Thomas de Leu · 1614–15

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum capillaceum (Weiss) Schrank

Sphagnum capillaceum (Weiss) Schrank

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/6/46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three portraits possibly representing Camillo Graffico, Ercole Pedemonte and Antonio Carone, by Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano)

Three portraits possibly representing Camillo Graffico, Ercole Pedemonte and Antonio Carone

Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano) · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng.

Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to Left, by François Le Moyne

Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to Left

François Le Moyne · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Primula incana M.E. Jones

Primula incana M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solidago missouriensis Nutt. var. missouriensis

Solidago missouriensis Nutt. var. missouriensis

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardamine laciniata (Hook.) Steud.

Cardamine laciniata (Hook.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pisonia aculeata L.

Pisonia aculeata L.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria pyramidata subsp. arenaria (Dumort.) Castrov. & Quintanar

Koeleria pyramidata subsp. arenaria (Dumort.) Castrov. & Quintanar

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allium ursinum L.

Allium ursinum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dalea purpurea Vent. var. purpurea

Dalea purpurea Vent. var. purpurea

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1904

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2908 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 09:54 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.