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 Le Bastier” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 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.
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1771–72

Public domainThe Met
Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Album of Headpieces from Charles-François Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons, Poëme

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Le Grand Guerry Capers, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Le Grand Guerry Capers

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1760–61

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657-1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1760–61

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
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1768–69

Public domainThe Met
Piedestal arondi par les angles [et] Piedestal à pans coupés, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Piedestal arondi par les angles [et] Piedestal à pans coupés

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Charles Le Bastier

Snuffbox

Charles Le Bastier · 1773/74

Public domainThe Met
Le Printems, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Le Printems

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

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
Bacchanalia, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

Bacchanalia

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with An Allegory of Geography, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with An Allegory of Geography

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1777–78

Public domainThe Met
Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Album of Lighthouse and Altarpiece Designs, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

Album of Lighthouse and Altarpiece Designs

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Dispositions d’une ferme ornée, Construite à la Westphalienne pour réunir et soumettre dans le même éspace à la surveillance de la fermière, les Récoltes et Bétail, ainsi que tous les instrumens aratoires, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Dispositions d’une ferme ornée, Construite à la Westphalienne pour réunir et soumettre dans le même éspace à la surveillance de la fermière, les Récoltes et Bétail, ainsi que tous les instrumens aratoires

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, by Charles Le Brun

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Charles Le Brun · 1647

Public domainThe Met
Les Fruits de L'Automne

Les Fruits de L'Automne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735-1740

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. 3437 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 153889 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 16:56 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.