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. 15 shown for “Chaise longue” — 51 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:07 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.
A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste, by George Smith

A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste

George Smith · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa, by Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770

Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa

Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Réjane, by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Madame Réjane

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Chaise longue

Chaise longue

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1, by Rudolph Ackermann, London

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1

Rudolph Ackermann, London · January–June 1809

Public domainThe Met
Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ersten Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks, by Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738

Ersten Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks

Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738 · 1728–31

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Bath Designs, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Four Bath Designs

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adelaide Neilson, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Adelaide Neilson

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · before 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture Designs, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Furniture Designs

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sofa

Design for a Sofa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chaise Lounge

Design for a Chaise Lounge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenedesmus longus

Scenedesmus longus

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenedesmus longus

Scenedesmus longus

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1889

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 218 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 01:07 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.