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. 12 shown for “Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of a Girl, by Mary Henry, born Princeton, NJ 1834-died Seville, Spain 1903

Portrait of a Girl

Mary Henry, born Princeton, NJ 1834-died Seville, Spain 1903 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veüe perspective de la décoration élevée sur la terrasse du Château de Versailles pour l’illumination et le feu d’artifice qui a été tiré à l’occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France avec Don Philippe Second Jnfant d’Espagne le XXVI Aoust M.DCC. XXXIX., by Pierre-Josse Joseph Perrot, French, 1678 – 1750

Veüe perspective de la décoration élevée sur la terrasse du Château de Versailles pour l’illumination et le feu d’artifice qui a été tiré à l’occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France avec Don Philippe Second Jnfant d’Espagne le XXVI Aoust M.DCC. XXXIX.

Pierre-Josse Joseph Perrot, French, 1678 – 1750 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657-1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vernonia ikopae Drake

Vernonia ikopae Drake

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tire du Cabinet de M. le Brun

Tire du Cabinet de M. le Brun

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)

Portrait of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)

Artist not stated in the record · 1696-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Jean Joseph Duboix, French, 1798 - 1841

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Jean Joseph Duboix, French, 1798 - 1841 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife with Engraved Mythical and Biblical Figures

Knife with Engraved Mythical and Biblical Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Louise Elisabeth Bourbon, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Quastalls

Portrait of Louise Elisabeth Bourbon, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Quastalls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper atropremnon Trel.

Piper atropremnon Trel.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1927

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33537 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-26 17:58 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.