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. 17 shown for “Claude Borne” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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.
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
Constantine's Arch, by James Fittler, English, born London, England 1758-died Turnham, England 1835

Constantine's Arch

James Fittler, English, born London, England 1758-died Turnham, England 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plateau, by Claude Borne

Plateau

Claude Borne · dated 1736

Public domainThe Met
Apollo and Marsias, by John Sebastien Miller, German, born Nuremberg, Germany 1715-died London, England after 1785

Apollo and Marsias

John Sebastien Miller, German, born Nuremberg, Germany 1715-died London, England after 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Evening, by William Byrne, English, born London, England 1743-died London, England 1805

Evening

William Byrne, English, born London, England 1743-died London, England 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1639

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by Francois Vivares, French, born France 1709-died London, England 1780

Untitled

Francois Vivares, French, born France 1709-died London, England 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunrise, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Sunrise

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter and Europa, by Francois Vivares, French, born France 1709-died London, England 1780

Jupiter and Europa

Francois Vivares, French, born France 1709-died London, England 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of La Crescenza, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

View of La Crescenza

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50

Public domainThe Met
Madame Duchesse, by Auguste Claude Simon Legrand, French, born Paris, France 1765-died Paris, France ca.1815

Madame Duchesse

Auguste Claude Simon Legrand, French, born Paris, France 1765-died Paris, France ca.1815 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XVII, by Auguste Claude Simon Legrand, French, born Paris, France 1765-died Paris, France ca.1815

Louis XVII

Auguste Claude Simon Legrand, French, born Paris, France 1765-died Paris, France ca.1815 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Vignettes, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Ornament Vignettes

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nectandra patens (Sw.) Griseb.

Nectandra patens (Sw.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Claude Amable Brasier, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Claude Amable Brasier

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
W.C. Fields, by Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984

W.C. Fields

Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · 1938

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. 310 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 30394 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:16 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.