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 “Carte du Théatre de la Guerre” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:13 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.
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Carte du Théatre de la Guerre

Carte du Théatre de la Guerre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Detail du Plan de la partie du Bosquet du Théatre et de la Grande Salle de verdure qui y correspond, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Detail du Plan de la partie du Bosquet du Théatre et de la Grande Salle de verdure qui y correspond

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handkerchief

Handkerchief

Artist not stated in the record · 1831–32

Public domainThe Met
Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine', by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine'

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1852–53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divisés en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en général, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664, by Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli

Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divisés en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en général, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664

Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine', by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Scenic Panel from 'La Guerre de I'indépendance Américaine'

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1852–53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Psilotum nudum (L.) P. Beauv.

Psilotum nudum (L.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soap Bubbles, by Jean Siméon Chardin

Soap Bubbles

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34

Public domainThe Met
Partie des Ornées de la Carte Chronologique du Roy faite en 1733 [Part of the Ornamentation of the 1733 Chronology (Old Testament) for the King], pl. 35 in Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Partie des Ornées de la Carte Chronologique du Roy faite en 1733 [Part of the Ornamentation of the 1733 Chronology (Old Testament) for the King], pl. 35 in Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Codiaeum peltatum P.S. Green

Codiaeum peltatum P.S. Green

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Outer Harbor of Brest, by Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe

The Outer Harbor of Brest

Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Odeon Theater, Paris

Odeon Theater, Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Theater of the Republic, Paris, by Mennier

Theater of the Republic, Paris

Mennier · 1802–1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre, circa 1740, by Padeloup

Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre, circa 1740

Padeloup · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Certificate for French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence L. McVey, by French Republic, French, founded 1792

Certificate for French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence L. McVey

French Republic, French, founded 1792 · March 2, 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Theatre des Varietés in Paris

Theatre des Varietés in Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1795

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. 212 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 806473 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 01:13 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.