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. 15 shown for “Christophe Veyrier” — 43 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:29 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.
Marquis Jean Deydé (1617–1687), by Christophe Veyrier

Marquis Jean Deydé (1617–1687)

Christophe Veyrier · 1684

Public domainThe Met
Sedum sexangulare L.

Sedum sexangulare L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsyas, by Christophe Veyrier

Marsyas

Christophe Veyrier · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cotoneaster tomentosus (Aiton) Lindl.

Cotoneaster tomentosus (Aiton) Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A magistrate, by Christophe Veyrier

A magistrate

Christophe Veyrier · ca. 1675

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galeopsis ladanum L.

Galeopsis ladanum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix alba L.

Salix alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.

Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucodon sciuroides (Hedw.) Schwägr.

Leucodon sciuroides (Hedw.) Schwägr.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mentha longifolia (L.) L.

Mentha longifolia (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens cristatus Wilson & Mitt.

Fissidens cristatus Wilson & Mitt.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Talpa europaea

Talpa europaea

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christopher Columbus Langdell, by Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946

Christopher Columbus Langdell

Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946 · 1906

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6924 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-29 06:29 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.