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 “Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806” — 43 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:58 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.
Design for a Stage Set, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Design for a Stage Set

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Public domainThe Met
Design for a country villa, by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806

Design for a country villa

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806 · 1765-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal of the Hôtel d'Uzès by Ledoux, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Portal of the Hôtel d'Uzès by Ledoux

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Maison de Mr. de Mèzièrres à Eaubonne Vallée de Montmorency par Mr. le Doux Architect, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Maison de Mr. de Mèzièrres à Eaubonne Vallée de Montmorency par Mr. le Doux Architect

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washstand (athénienne or lavabo), by Charles Percier

Washstand (athénienne or lavabo)

Charles Percier · 1800–1814

Public domainThe Met
Pavillon de Louveciennes éxécuté près St. Germain pour Me Dubarry par Mr le Doux Architecte, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Pavillon de Louveciennes éxécuté près St. Germain pour Me Dubarry par Mr le Doux Architecte

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Country Villa

Project for a Country Villa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue de la Maison de M. Le Doux (View of Mr. Le Doux's House), by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand

Vue de la Maison de M. Le Doux (View of Mr. Le Doux's House)

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand · 1787–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
NEPTUNE, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

NEPTUNE

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
FLORE, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

FLORE

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
APOLLON, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

APOLLON

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
BACCUS, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

BACCUS

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
DIANE, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

DIANE

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
APOLLON, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

APOLLON

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

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. 97581 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 13:58 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.