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. 14 shown for “Eugène Leroux” — 42 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:47 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.
Le Suicide, from "Les Artistes Contemporains", by Eugène Leroux

Le Suicide, from "Les Artistes Contemporains"

Eugène Leroux · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Chickens and Ducks, by Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863

Chickens and Ducks

Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Monkey in the Mirror, by Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863

Monkey in the Mirror

Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forêt de Fontainbleau, by Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863

Forêt de Fontainbleau

Eugène Leroux, French, born Caen, France 1807-died Paris, France 1863 · Salon 1850-1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa cusickii subsp. epilis (Scribn.) W.A. Weber

Poa cusickii subsp. epilis (Scribn.) W.A. Weber

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm.

Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus moscheutos L.

Hibiscus moscheutos L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marquis De Lafayette, by Jean Marie Leroux, 1788 - 1870

Marquis De Lafayette

Jean Marie Leroux, 1788 - 1870 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hottonia palustris L.

Hottonia palustris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouteloua simplex Lag.

Bouteloua simplex Lag.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sporobolus arenicola P.M. Peterson

Sporobolus arenicola P.M. Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senecio integerrimus Nutt.

Senecio integerrimus Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia wrightii Vasey ex J.M. Coult.

Muhlenbergia wrightii Vasey ex J.M. Coult.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1901

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9574 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 2026-08-27 02:47 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.