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. 15 shown for “Emmanuel Tzanès” — 43 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:09 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.
Head of the Virgin, by Emmanuel Tzanès

Head of the Virgin

Emmanuel Tzanès

Public domainThe Met
Marie Aimée Emmanuelle Montégut, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Marie Aimée Emmanuelle Montégut

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Christ, by Emmanuel Tzanès

Head of Christ

Emmanuel Tzanès

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Philibert-Emmanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin

Portrait of Philibert-Emmanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin

Artist not stated in the record · 1666

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Emmanuel Tzanès

Head of Saint John the Baptist

Emmanuel Tzanès

Public domainThe Met
Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dedication Letter, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Dedication Letter

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural project for the house of P.J. Hetzel, by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879

Architectural project for the house of P.J. Hetzel

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dedication Page, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Dedication Page

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Cardinal Emmanuel-Théodore de la Tour-d'Auvergne, duc d'Abret (1644-1715)

Portrait of Cardinal Emmanuel-Théodore de la Tour-d'Auvergne, duc d'Abret (1644-1715)

Artist not stated in the record · 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Auguste-Emmanuel Pointelin, French, born Arbois, France 1839-died Paris, France 1933

Landscape

Auguste-Emmanuel Pointelin, French, born Arbois, France 1839-died Paris, France 1933 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural project for the house of P.J. Hetzel, by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879

Architectural project for the house of P.J. Hetzel

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Malpighia glabra L.

Malpighia glabra L.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1943

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 158 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 05:09 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.