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. 21 shown for “Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe” — 49 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:22 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.
Traite des Nègres (The Slave Trade), by Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe

Traite des Nègres (The Slave Trade)

Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Feldtrappe

Textile

Feldtrappe · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom"), by Camille Corot

The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")

Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857

Public domainThe Met
St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, by Benjamin Joseph Falk, 14 Oct 1853 - 19 Mar 1925

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Benjamin Joseph Falk, 14 Oct 1853 - 19 Mar 1925 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Group in a Landscape

Group in a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 1758–1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Joffre, Marechal, by Henri Jacquier, French, born St. Étienne, France 1878-died Cannes, France 1921

Joseph Joffre, Marechal

Henri Jacquier, French, born St. Étienne, France 1878-died Cannes, France 1921 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon

[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]

Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
Plate 9, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Plate 9, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Plate 12 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique..., by Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730

Plate 12 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique...

Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique..., Plate 1, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique..., Plate 1

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Plate 11, Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Plate 11, Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 6, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Plate 6, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 5, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Plate 5, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 8, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, by Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745

Plate 8, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière

Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 88435 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-03 09:22 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.