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 “Balthazar Moncornet” — 58 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:45 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.
Saint John the Baptist, by Balthazar Moncornet

Saint John the Baptist

Balthazar Moncornet · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
La veuë du pont de Rouen, by François Lefebvre, French, active 1631–1676

La veuë du pont de Rouen

François Lefebvre, French, active 1631–1676 · 1650-1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, by Balthazar Moncornet

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground

Balthazar Moncornet · ca. 1630–68

Public domainThe Met
La Perspective de L'Eglise nostre Dame, by François Lefebvre, French, active 1631–1676

La Perspective de L'Eglise nostre Dame

François Lefebvre, French, active 1631–1676 · 1650-1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots, by Balthazar Moncornet

Mary, Queen of Scots

Balthazar Moncornet · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier, by Briceau, French, 16..–17..

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier

Briceau, French, 16..–17.. · 1650-1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling, from "Desseins de Plaphons"

Ceiling, from "Desseins de Plaphons"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Charles de Saint-Mémin Self-Portrait, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles de Saint-Mémin Self-Portrait

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Plate, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Title Plate, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Charles de Saint-Mémin Self-Portrait, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles de Saint-Mémin Self-Portrait

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Carlos, Don Balthazar, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Carlos, Don Balthazar

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Ebenezer Dorr, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Ebenezer Dorr

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Bloomfield Giles, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Hannah Bloomfield Giles

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · c. 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
James Giles, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

James Giles

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Woman, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Unidentified Woman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util", by Nicolas Cochin

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin · 1645

Public domainThe Met
John Reynolds, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Reynolds

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 900 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 11:45 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.