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 “Environs de Carqueronne” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:45 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.
Terracotta canopic urn

Terracotta canopic urn

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Environs de Carqueronne

Environs de Carqueronne

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan, by Paul Cézanne

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
Lygodium flexuosum Sw.

Lygodium flexuosum Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, châteaux & autres lieux de plaisance, situés à quinze lieues aux environs de cette ville, by Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville

Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, châteaux & autres lieux de plaisance, situés à quinze lieues aux environs de cette ville

Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville · 1762

Public domainThe Met
Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray

Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des environs : avec les antiquitez justes & précises sur chaque sujet, et les adresses pour trouver facilement tout ce que ces lieux renferment d'agréable & d'utile : ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce, by Georges Louis Le Rouge

Les curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des environs : avec les antiquitez justes & précises sur chaque sujet, et les adresses pour trouver facilement tout ce que ces lieux renferment d'agréable & d'utile : ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce

Georges Louis Le Rouge · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Public domainThe Met
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Selliguea enervis (Cav.) Ching

Selliguea enervis (Cav.) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, by Charles-Théodore Frère

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Public domainThe Met
Carex acutiformis Ehrh.

Carex acutiformis Ehrh.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Dalechampia scandens L.

Dalechampia scandens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs), by Claude Goyrand

View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs)

Claude Goyrand · ca. 1644

Public domainThe Met
Tectaria dissecta (G. Forst.) Lellinger

Tectaria dissecta (G. Forst.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Environs de Choisy-le-Roi, by Charles-François Daubigny

Environs de Choisy-le-Roi

Charles-François Daubigny · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Gymnanthemum chapelieri (Drake) H. Rob.

Gymnanthemum chapelieri (Drake) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Environs de Rome, by Camille Corot

Environs de Rome

Camille Corot · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Men at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

Unidentified Men at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Environs of Rome, by Camille Corot

Environs of Rome

Camille Corot · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Hymenasplenium unilaterale (Lam.) Hayata

Hymenasplenium unilaterale (Lam.) Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1909

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. 451 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 616187 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 01:45 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.