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. 16 shown for “Chenet” — 37 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:55 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.
Chenet

Chenet

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Jean Baptiste Alexandre Chenet, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Baptiste Alexandre Chenet

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chenet

Chenet

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Eugenie Chenet, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Eugenie Chenet

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Artibeus jamaicensis

Artibeus jamaicensis

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Artibeus jamaicensis

Artibeus jamaicensis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of firedogs (chenets), by Quentin-Claude Pitoin

Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Quentin-Claude Pitoin · ca. 1772

Public domainThe Met
Venus Marina, by Girolamo Campagna

Venus Marina

Girolamo Campagna · late 16th century–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1740–89

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and child, by Niccolò Roccatagliata

Virgin and child

Niccolò Roccatagliata · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter with a thunderbolt, by Joseph de Levis

Jupiter with a thunderbolt

Joseph de Levis · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair), by François Rémond

Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair)

François Rémond · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair), by François Rémond

Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair)

François Rémond · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Andiron with figure of Jupiter (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Jupiter (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:55 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.