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. 23 shown for “Claude Henri Watelet” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 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.
Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte, by Claude Henri Watelet

Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte

Claude Henri Watelet · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Cinnamomum sezannense ? Watelet

Cinnamomum sezannense ? Watelet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt: Small Plate, by Claude Henri Watelet

The Flight into Egypt: Small Plate

Claude Henri Watelet · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Daphnogene elegans Watelet

Daphnogene elegans Watelet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte, by Claude Henri Watelet

Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte

Claude Henri Watelet · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silvie, by Claude Henri Watelet

Silvie

Claude Henri Watelet · London 1743

Public domainThe Met
Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jan 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Cow Drinking, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Landscape with a Cow Drinking

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part II, as well as works by Henri Sallembier, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part II, as well as works by Henri Sallembier

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of Bernini (from a set of six)

Panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of Bernini (from a set of six)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1771

Public domainThe Met
Franklin Roosevelt and Cabinet, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Franklin Roosevelt and Cabinet

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ocotea cernua (Nees) Mez

Ocotea cernua (Nees) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modern copy of a panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of da Cortona (from an original set of six)

Modern copy of a panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of da Cortona (from an original set of six)

Artist not stated in the record · Mid-20th century copy of ca. 1771 original

Public domainThe Met
Scleria latifolia Sw.

Scleria latifolia Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modern copy of a panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of Carracci (from an original set of six)

Modern copy of a panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of Carracci (from an original set of six)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1771

Public domainThe Met
Ocotea cernua (Nees) Mez

Ocotea cernua (Nees) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), by Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Emile Durant)

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904)

Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Emile Durant) · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Vriesea ringens (Griseb.) Harms

Vriesea ringens (Griseb.) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus and the Origin of Coral, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1671

Public domainThe Met
Juncus bufonius L.

Juncus bufonius L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant), by Jean Henri Riesener

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Ocotea floribunda (Sw.) Mez

Ocotea floribunda (Sw.) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1936

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. 384 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 125543 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 2026-08-26 19:59 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.