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. 18 shown for “Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898” — 30 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:59 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.
Geese, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Geese

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Rainy street

Rainy street

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fishermen (Pêcheurs de Valech), by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Fishermen (Pêcheurs de Valech)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Matinée d'Hiver sur les Quais

Matinée d'Hiver sur les Quais

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Oies, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Les Oies

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Warf at Trouville, by Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898

Warf at Trouville

Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady of the Swans, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Lady of the Swans

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Rainy day, by Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898

Rainy day

Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Marine -- Souvenir of Medway, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

The Little Marine -- Souvenir of Medway

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1879

Public domainThe Met
The cab stand

The cab stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes), by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1860–98

Public domainThe Met
Les Anes du Midi, by Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898

Les Anes du Midi

Félix Hilaire Buhot, French, 1847–1898 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant), by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1860–98

Public domainThe Met
A Squall at Trouville, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

A Squall at Trouville

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1874

Public domainThe Met
A Pier in England (Une Jetée en Angleterre), by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

A Pier in England (Une Jetée en Angleterre)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1879

Public domainThe Met
A Jetty in England, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

A Jetty in England

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Westminster Palace, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Westminster Palace

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1884

Public domainThe Met
A Jetty in England, by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

A Jetty in England

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1879

Public domainThe Met
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. 44 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:59 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.