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. 13 shown for “François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:27 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.
Head of a man with a beard, by Louis Marin Bonnet

Head of a man with a beard

Louis Marin Bonnet · ca. 1755–93

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornament Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouvelle Feuille d’Eau à Graine, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Nouvelle Feuille d’Eau à Graine

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fond Baptismaux, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Fond Baptismaux

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornament Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porches de la planche cy-dessus, feuille 3e, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Porches de la planche cy-dessus, feuille 3e

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1751–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patte de Lion en Support, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Patte de Lion en Support

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouvelle feuille de Rocaille, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Nouvelle feuille de Rocaille

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Title Page

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation de différentes Boëtes de Pendules, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation de différentes Boëtes de Pendules

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enseigne / Méridien, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Enseigne / Méridien

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornament Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornament Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 209 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 10:27 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.