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 “Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Title Page, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Title Page

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Rocheville de Menard, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Rocheville de Menard

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porte St. Antoine, Plate 77 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris", by Les Campion Frères, Paris, France

Porte St. Antoine, Plate 77 from "Vues Pittoresques des Principaux Édifices de Paris"

Les Campion Frères, Paris, France · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre de Vergès, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Pierre de Vergès

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails des differents Monuments projetée et executée à Soisy sous Etiole dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis par Dubois ainé Architecte Eleve et 1er neveu de feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aechmea nudicaulis var. aureorosea (Antoine) L.B. Sm.

Aechmea nudicaulis var. aureorosea (Antoine) L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LIVRE DE DIFFERENTS Caracteres de Têtes. Inventez Par M. Watteaux, Et Gravez d’après ses Desseins, par Filloeul, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

LIVRE DE DIFFERENTS Caracteres de Têtes. Inventez Par M. Watteaux, Et Gravez d’après ses Desseins, par Filloeul

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1727–34

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan general de l’Hostel de Sully à la rue St. Antoine, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan general de l’Hostel de Sully à la rue St. Antoine

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

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

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 613141 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 02:48 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.