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. 12 shown for “Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:24 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.
Landscape with Branch, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Landscape with Branch

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1793–1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Mound, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Landscape with Mound

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1793–1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodland Scene with Animals Drinking, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Woodland Scene with Animals Drinking

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1793–1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Figures In Front of a Church, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Three Figures In Front of a Church

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1793-1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Mound and Greenery, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Landscape with Mound and Greenery

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1793–1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Landscape

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1850-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cross in Normandy, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

A Cross in Normandy

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Title Page, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Design for a Title Page

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1825–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woods with a Sleeping Man, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Woods with a Sleeping Man

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1825–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Woman at a Stream, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

Landscape with a Woman at a Stream

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Landscape, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

A Landscape

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1850-1875

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 234332 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 13:24 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.