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 “Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:57 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.
Portrait of the Duke de Loubat, by Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon

Portrait of the Duke de Loubat

Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Frederic De Peyster, by George Edwin Bissell, born New Preston, CT 1839-died Mount Vernon, NY 1920

Frederic De Peyster

George Edwin Bissell, born New Preston, CT 1839-died Mount Vernon, NY 1920 · modeled ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief moulded metal plaque for sewing box, by Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon

Relief moulded metal plaque for sewing box

Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Election of the Duke de Loubat, Member of the Institut de France, by Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon

The Election of the Duke de Loubat, Member of the Institut de France

Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Jean-Victor Moreau, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean-Victor Moreau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784, by Tholey, Charles P.

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784

Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Tobie, I Kind o’ Likes You

Tobie, I Kind o’ Likes You

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Head of a King

Head of a King

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 777936 matched · 40 examined · 34 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 2026-09-02 07:57 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.