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. 16 shown for “Félix Lecomte” — 44 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:58 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.
Faith and Charity, by Félix Lecomte

Faith and Charity

Félix Lecomte · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Mimusops africana Lecomte & Lecomte

Mimusops africana Lecomte & Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child, by Léon Bonnat

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child

Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Public domainThe Met
Mimusops africana Lecomte & Lecomte

Mimusops africana Lecomte & Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Young Peasant Women, by Camille Pissarro

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Diospyros thorelii (Lecomte) T.H. Nguyên

Diospyros thorelii (Lecomte) T.H. Nguyên

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Linostoma scandens var. cambodianum Lecomte

Linostoma scandens var. cambodianum Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · -- Mar 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linostoma scandens var. oblongifolium Lecomte

Linostoma scandens var. oblongifolium Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altingia cambodiana Lecomte

Altingia cambodiana Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Arceuthobium chinense Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elaeagnus delavayi Lecomte

Elaeagnus delavayi Lecomte

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elytranthe henryi Lecomte in Sarg.

Elytranthe henryi Lecomte in Sarg.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6482 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 2026-09-01 20:58 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.