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. 17 shown for “Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:33 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.
Osage Warrior, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Osage Warrior

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1805–7

Public domainThe Met
Colonel John Tayloe, by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852

Colonel John Tayloe

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Saint-Mémin's American Passport, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Charles Saint-Mémin's American Passport

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · June 30, 1810

Public domainThe Met
Col. Wm. Duane, by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852

Col. Wm. Duane

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

John Adams

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1800–1801

Public domainThe Met
Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852

Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Portrait of a Man

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Frances Cadwalader Erskine, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Frances Cadwalader Erskine

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Rider (?), by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Alexander Rider (?)

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1808–9

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Man

Portrait of a Young Man

Artist not stated in the record · 1796-1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean-Victor Moreau, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Jean-Victor Moreau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · ca. 1806 or 1811

Public domainThe Met
View of the City and Harbour of New York taken from Mount Pitt, the Seat of John R. Livingston, Esq., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

View of the City and Harbour of New York taken from Mount Pitt, the Seat of John R. Livingston, Esq.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1796

Public domainThe Met
[Mezzotint portrait of Louisa DuPonceau, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits], by Jeremiah Gurney

[Mezzotint portrait of Louisa DuPonceau, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits]

Jeremiah Gurney · 1862

Public domainThe Met
[Mezzotint portrait of John C. Huber in Profile, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits], by Jeremiah Gurney

[Mezzotint portrait of John C. Huber in Profile, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits]

Jeremiah Gurney · 1862

Public domainThe Met
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Dyer Sharp Wynkoop, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Dyer Sharp Wynkoop

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1800

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George Clinton (Cornelia Tappen), by Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit

Mrs. George Clinton (Cornelia Tappen)

Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit · ca. 1797

Public domainThe Met
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 03:33 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.