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. 12 shown for “Firm of Breguet et Fils” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Oeuvres de François de Cuvilliés, fils, Ecole d'architecture Bavaroise, Suite 1-20; 4th Recueil (of François de Cuvilliés, pere et fils; Vue Perspectives; Recueil de Ponts Anciene et Moderne; Nouveau Recuil de Ponts Modern, by François de Cuvilliés, fils

Oeuvres de François de Cuvilliés, fils, Ecole d'architecture Bavaroise, Suite 1-20; 4th Recueil (of François de Cuvilliés, pere et fils; Vue Perspectives; Recueil de Ponts Anciene et Moderne; Nouveau Recuil de Ponts Modern

François de Cuvilliés, fils · 1768–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Four Seasons, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

The Four Seasons

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1818–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: New Book of Vases by Voisin Fils, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Album of Prints: New Book of Vases by Voisin Fils

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1786-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Élévation Géometralle d’une Décoration pour un feu d’artifice qui devait être exécuté de reliéf a Nimphembourg, dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres Respectueux Serviteur et sujet, F. de Cuvillies fils, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Élévation Géometralle d’une Décoration pour un feu d’artifice qui devait être exécuté de reliéf a Nimphembourg, dedié a S.A.S.E. de Baviere par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres Respectueux Serviteur et sujet, F. de Cuvillies fils

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc, by Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843

Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc

Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Meunier, Son Fils, et l’Ane, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Le Meunier, Son Fils, et l’Ane

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan Coupe et Elévations d’une Melonnière éxécutée des chez Mr. J.B. Paulée à Douay, dépt. Du Nord, d’après les Déssins de Mr. Belanger fils, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan Coupe et Elévations d’une Melonnière éxécutée des chez Mr. J.B. Paulée à Douay, dépt. Du Nord, d’après les Déssins de Mr. Belanger fils

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche], by Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829

Fragment of an unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Hunting and Fishing [La Chasse et La Pêche]

Jean-Jacques Karpff, French, 1770 - 1829 · 1810 or 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2936171 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.