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 “Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu” — 59 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:13 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.
Watch, by Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu

Watch

Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc'h, by Elizabeth Nourse, born Mount Healthy, OH 1859-died Paris, France 1938

Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc'h

Elizabeth Nourse, born Mount Healthy, OH 1859-died Paris, France 1938 · ca. 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu

Watch

Firm of Frères Wiss et Menu · ca. 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Firm of Esquivillon Frères et De Choudens

Watch

Firm of Esquivillon Frères et De Choudens · ca. 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
L'arrivée des Lettres et des Gournaux, by Lami-Denozan Libraire, French, active 19th c.

L'arrivée des Lettres et des Gournaux

Lami-Denozan Libraire, French, active 19th c. · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch with calendar, by Firm of Bordier Frères

Watch with calendar

Firm of Bordier Frères · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté, by Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté

Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catalogue of Ironwork by the firm J. J. Ducel Fils, bound together with "Tarif des Poids et Prix des Articles en Forte de Fer de J. J. Ducel Maitre de Forges, by Eudes

Catalogue of Ironwork by the firm J. J. Ducel Fils, bound together with "Tarif des Poids et Prix des Articles en Forte de Fer de J. J. Ducel Maitre de Forges

Eudes · ca. 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock with Father Time, by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Clock with Father Time

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Cupid and Psyche, by Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815

Cupid and Psyche

Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cows Crossing a Ford, by Jules Dupré

Cows Crossing a Ford

Jules Dupré · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Invoice for the firm of Arthur et Robert, by Arthur & Robert

Wallpaper Invoice for the firm of Arthur et Robert

Arthur & Robert · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Alfred Sisley · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Don Ouixote, by Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815

Don Ouixote

Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Le tempe de l'amour, by Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815

Le tempe de l'amour

Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Japanese Robe, by Alfred Stevens

The Japanese Robe

Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Public domainThe Met
Fragments, by DuBois Pere et Freres, late 18th century

Fragments

DuBois Pere et Freres, late 18th century · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1851

Public domainThe Met
Le temple de l'amour, by Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815

Le temple de l'amour

Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wineglass

Wineglass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Chef de piece

Chef de piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–85

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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 6 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. 2936259 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 01:13 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.