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. 24 shown for “Claude Louis Desrais” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:21 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.
Allegories of Africa and America, by Claude Louis Desrais

Allegories of Africa and America

Claude Louis Desrais · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with attributions of war, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Cartouche with attributions of war

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toussaint Louverture on Horseback, by Claude Louis Desrais

Toussaint Louverture on Horseback

Claude Louis Desrais · ca. 1802

Public domainThe Met
La Triple Y Vresse

La Triple Y Vresse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature, by G. F. R. Molé

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Public domainThe Met
"La course au Sanglier" "The Boar Hunt", by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

"La course au Sanglier" "The Boar Hunt"

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Louis XVI and his family, with hidden silhouettes, by Anonymous

Tomb of Louis XVI and his family, with hidden silhouettes

Anonymous · 1793–1800

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–95

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
Le Double Engagement

Le Double Engagement

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Apollon et Muses, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Apollon et Muses

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa (canapé à confidents), by Claude I Sené

Sofa (canapé à confidents)

Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
View of the Tuilleries Palace, Paris

View of the Tuilleries Palace, Paris

Artist not stated in the record · 1798-1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flora, by Louis Claude Vassé

Flora

Louis Claude Vassé · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Fragments of an incomplete cartoon for cotton printing: La Course Anglaise, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Fragments of an incomplete cartoon for cotton printing: La Course Anglaise

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Textile

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph drying her hair, by Louis Claude Vassé

Nymph drying her hair

Louis Claude Vassé · 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
An Old Woman Spinning, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

An Old Woman Spinning

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (bergère) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Armchair (bergère) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · ca. 1788

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Painted Panels, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Designs for Painted Panels

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1788–90

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. 388 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 49095 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 14:21 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.