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 “Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:29 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.
Study for a Tailpiece, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Study for a Tailpiece

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen · 1774

Public domainThe Met
TROISIEME LIVRE de fragments à l’usage des différents Artistes, DÉDIÉ à Mr. Le Marquis de Voyer, Dargenson., by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

TROISIEME LIVRE de fragments à l’usage des différents Artistes, DÉDIÉ à Mr. Le Marquis de Voyer, Dargenson.

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · after 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Book Illustration, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Study for a Book Illustration

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanalia, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Bacchanalia

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti with a Medallion, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Putti with a Medallion

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Louis XV, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Statue of Louis XV

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti with a Medallion, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Putti with a Medallion

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Title Page

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Soldier: Garde Française, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Standing Soldier: Garde Française

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Tailpiece Designs, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Four Tailpiece Designs

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine

Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Eight Tailpiece Designs, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Eight Tailpiece Designs

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themire Crowned by Graces, by Sèvres Manufactory

Themire Crowned by Graces

Sèvres Manufactory · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Title Page

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vierge, d'après Eisen, by Gilles-Antoine Demarteau

Vierge, d'après Eisen

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Album of Tailpiece Designs, by Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799

Album of Tailpiece Designs

Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Hooker, by Dominique C. Fabronius, active 1850 - c. 1888

Joseph Hooker

Dominique C. Fabronius, active 1850 - c. 1888 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Woman, by Louis Marin Bonnet

Head of a Woman

Louis Marin Bonnet · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Title Page

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Woman, by Louis Marin Bonnet

Head of a Woman

Louis Marin Bonnet · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crying Child, by Louis Marin Bonnet

The Crying Child

Louis Marin Bonnet · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Elements

Architectural Elements

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 102 matched · 24 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. 211651 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 17:29 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.