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 “C. C., French, active 19th c.” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:01 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 Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster Strip, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster Strip

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Design for a Frame

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by I. C.

Teapot

I. C. · 1699–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Mouldings, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Design for the Decoration of Mouldings

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for Ogees, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Six Designs for Ogees

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830), by C. Liger

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of a Frieze, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Design for the Decoration of a Frieze

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eight Designs for Decorated Mouldings, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Eight Designs for Decorated Mouldings

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour, by Jean-Louis Lemoyne

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour

Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · August 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent, by C. Baudouin

Serpent

C. Baudouin · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun, by J. C. A. Brun

Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun

J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana Hunting and Proserpina in the Underworld, by Master I. D. C.

Diana Hunting and Proserpina in the Underworld

Master I. D. C. · probably early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

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. 20859 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1075914 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 20:01 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.