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. 14 shown for “De Lacollombe” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:18 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.
Flintlock Gun, by De Lacollombe

Flintlock Gun

De Lacollombe · ca. 1730–40

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Five from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate Five from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · dated 1730

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Seven from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate Seven from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Two from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate Two from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · dated 1730

Public domainThe Met
Plate Four from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate Four from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Plate Three from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate Three from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Plate One (Title Page) from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate One (Title Page) from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · dated 1730

Public domainThe Met
Plate twelve from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate twelve from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · dated 1736

Public domainThe Met
Plate three from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate three from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · ca. 1705–30

Public domainThe Met
Plate seven from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries, by De Lacollombe

Plate seven from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

De Lacollombe · ca. 1705–30

Public domainThe Met
Plusievrs Pieces et Ornements Darquebuzerie (4th extended edition), by Claude Simonin

Plusievrs Pieces et Ornements Darquebuzerie (4th extended edition)

Claude Simonin · ca. 1776

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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 612457 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:18 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.