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 Perrault” — 54 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:48 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.
Les Contes de Perrault, by Charles Perrault

Les Contes de Perrault

Charles Perrault · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Surprised by the Snow, by Unidentified

Surprised by the Snow

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour, en l'année 1662, by Charles Perrault

Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour, en l'année 1662

Charles Perrault · 1670

Public domainThe Met
Mme. Marie Josephe Louise Perrault Duralde, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mme. Marie Josephe Louise Perrault Duralde

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Castrorum Prœfectus Americanus, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel), by François Chauveau

Castrorum Prœfectus Americanus, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)

François Chauveau · 1662–70

Public domainThe Met
Bembidion dannieae

Bembidion dannieae

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1972 to 24 Aug 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armiger, Ephebus, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel), by François Chauveau

Armiger, Ephebus, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)

François Chauveau · 1662–70

Public domainThe Met
Bembidion georgettae

Bembidion georgettae

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stipatores, Equus Ductitius, Agasones, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel), by François Chauveau

Stipatores, Equus Ductitius, Agasones, Americani, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)

François Chauveau · 1662–70

Public domainThe Met
Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M. Roem.

Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M. Roem.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Labyrinte de Versailles, by Isaac de Benserade

Labyrinte de Versailles

Isaac de Benserade · 1677

Public domainThe Met
Streptopus lanceolatus (Aiton) Reveal

Streptopus lanceolatus (Aiton) Reveal

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Americanorum Rex, Guisius, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel), by François Chauveau

Americanorum Rex, Guisius, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)

François Chauveau · 1662–70

Public domainThe Met
Poa palustris L.

Poa palustris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Jean Brandely

Cabinet

Jean Brandely · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Platynus degallieri

Platynus degallieri

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir?, by Auguste Garneray

Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir?

Auguste Garneray · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, by Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Jean-Jacques Fieffé

Wall clock (cartel)

Jean-Jacques Fieffé · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Puss in Boots, an entertaining School-Piece: by Young Slyboots [School piece or Penmanship sheet], by Laurie & Whittle

Puss in Boots, an entertaining School-Piece: by Young Slyboots [School piece or Penmanship sheet]

Laurie & Whittle · November 13, 1802

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue de la Grande Façade du Vieux Louvre, by Jacques Rigaud

Vue de la Grande Façade du Vieux Louvre

Jacques Rigaud · originally published 1729, inscribed 1752

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 127362 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 19:48 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.