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. 20 shown for “Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778” — 48 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:58 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.
Nymph at a Bath, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

Nymph at a Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Piazza del Popolo, Rome, by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, French, 1716 – 1803

Piazza del Popolo, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, French, 1716 – 1803 · ca. 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana at the Bath, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

Diana at the Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: Palace Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Palace Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1742–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

Architectural Fantasy

Charles Michel Ange Challe · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Palace on a High Terrace, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Palace on a High Terrace

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View Within the Colosseum, Rome, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

View Within the Colosseum, Rome

Charles Michel Ange Challe · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: Buildings, Monuments and Stairways, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Buildings, Monuments and Stairways

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1750–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Farmyard, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

Farmyard

Charles Michel Ange Challe · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance, by Charles Michel Ange Challe

An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance

Charles Michel Ange Challe · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Palazza Madama, Rome (?), by Charles Michel Ange Challe

View of the Palazza Madama, Rome (?)

Charles Michel Ange Challe · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Appas Multiplies, by Louis Dennel

Les Appas Multiplies

Louis Dennel · 1759–1806

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antique Ruins with Figures Contemplating, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Antique Ruins with Figures Contemplating

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1742-1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy: Bridge and Monuments, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Bridge and Monuments

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1745–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
IIIE. SUITE DE VASES, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

IIIE. SUITE DE VASES

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 213162 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 07:58 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.