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 “Claude Goyrand” — 47 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:21 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.
St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto, by Claude Goyrand

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

Claude Goyrand

Public domainThe Met
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
View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs), by Claude Goyrand

View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs)

Claude Goyrand · ca. 1644

Public domainThe Met
W.C. Fields, by Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984

W.C. Fields

Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 13: Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures), by Stefano della Bella

Plate 13: Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

Stefano della Bella · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Hartin Claud, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Hartin Claud

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 12: A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other soldiers on horseback to right in the background, from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures), by Stefano della Bella

Plate 12: A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other soldiers on horseback to right in the background, from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

Stefano della Bella · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Acalypha arvensis Poepp.

Acalypha arvensis Poepp.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, plate 13 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures), by Stefano della Bella

Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, plate 13 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

Stefano della Bella · 1642

Public domainThe Met
CHARLES GILLOT DE LANGRES, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

CHARLES GILLOT DE LANGRES

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other soldiers on horseback to right in the background, plate 12 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures), by Stefano della Bella

A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other soldiers on horseback to right in the background, plate 12 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

Stefano della Bella · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura et usu. Libri Quatuor, by Giovanni Battista Ferrari

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura et usu. Libri Quatuor

Giovanni Battista Ferrari · 1646

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10118 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 03:21 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.