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 “Edouard Detaille” — 56 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:36 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.
Gendarmes d'Ordonnance, by Edouard Detaille

Gendarmes d'Ordonnance

Edouard Detaille · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Tompette de chasseur a cheval

Tompette de chasseur a cheval

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dragoon on Horseback, by Edouard Detaille

A Dragoon on Horseback

Edouard Detaille · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Un Uhlan

Un Uhlan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Defense of Champigny, by Edouard Detaille

The Defense of Champigny

Edouard Detaille · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Office Hongrois

Office Hongrois

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Standing Grenadier of the Municipal Guard, by Edouard Detaille

A Standing Grenadier of the Municipal Guard

Edouard Detaille · 1891

Public domainThe Met
"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armide], by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

"Le Jardin d'Armide" [The Garden of Armide]

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis), by Edouard Detaille

Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis)

Edouard Detaille · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
French Cuirassier, by Edouard Detaille

French Cuirassier

Edouard Detaille · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis), by Edouard Detaille

Sheet of sketches (Feuille de Croquis)

Edouard Detaille · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirassier, by Edouard Detaille

Cuirassier

Edouard Detaille · 1872

Public domainThe Met
C-Bass, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

C-Bass

Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Édouard Detaille], by Walery Frères

[Édouard Detaille]

Walery Frères · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey and others

Edouard Blacque Bey and others

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrest of an Ambulance Corps, by George Barrie

Arrest of an Ambulance Corps

George Barrie · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Edgar Allan Poe, by Edouard Manet, 1832 - 1883

Edgar Allan Poe

Edouard Manet, 1832 - 1883 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of the Soldier, by Edouard Detaille

The Dream of the Soldier

Edouard Detaille · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Female Head), by Edouard Fortini, Italian, b. Florence, 1862

Untitled (Female Head)

Edouard Fortini, Italian, b. Florence, 1862 · (c. 1890-1920)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch-Bearer, by Giovanni Boldini

The Dispatch-Bearer

Giovanni Boldini · ?1879

Public domainThe Met
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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. 5657 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:36 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.