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. 13 shown for “Cretien workshop, Paris (c.1690 – post 1737)” — 41 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:19 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.
Trompe de chasse "Dauphine", by Cretien workshop, Paris (c.1690 – post 1737)

Trompe de chasse "Dauphine"

Cretien workshop, Paris (c.1690 – post 1737) · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Siege of Paris preprinted letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers, by Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690

Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers

Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lit à tombeau, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à tombeau

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pigeon post microform on paper

Pigeon post microform on paper

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painting of Benjamin Franklin, by Charles Ayer Whipple, 1859 - 1928

Painting of Benjamin Franklin

Charles Ayer Whipple, 1859 - 1928 · 1885-1911

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1024141 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 15:19 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.