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. 18 shown for “E. Prieur” — 46 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:44 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.
Fan, by E. Prieur

Fan

E. Prieur · ca. 1889

Public domainThe Met
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Carle (Charles André) Vanloo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Books of Ornament by Prieur, by Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795

Album of Prints: Books of Ornament by Prieur

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Continental Painter

Portrait of a Man

Continental Painter

Public domainThe Met
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector, by Johann G. Racine

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector

Johann G. Racine · case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Feb 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 31/7/50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · May 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Ceratopteris cornuta (P. Beauv.) Le Prieur

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1959

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1104850 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 2026-09-01 13:44 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.