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. 23 shown for “François Grenier” — 54 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 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.
View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757, by Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757

Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1762

Public domainThe Met
Agropyron dasyanthum Ledeb.

Agropyron dasyanthum Ledeb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Contopus latirostris

Contopus latirostris

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
She is Beautiful!, from "The Complete Works of Béranger", by François Grenier

She is Beautiful!, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

François Grenier · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Dendroica adelaidae

Dendroica adelaidae

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fishermen's Canteen, by Jeanne Deny

The Fishermen's Canteen

Jeanne Deny · 1770–97

Public domainThe Met
View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples, by Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples

Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Sideritis hyssopifolia L.

Sideritis hyssopifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeanne, the Redhead, from "The Songs of Béranger", by François-Louis Français

Jeanne, the Redhead, from "The Songs of Béranger"

François-Louis Français · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Arenaria villarsii Balb.

Arenaria villarsii Balb.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Old Vagabond, from "The Songs of Béranger", by François-Louis Français

The Old Vagabond, from "The Songs of Béranger"

François-Louis Français · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Erodium macradenum L'Hér.

Erodium macradenum L'Hér.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Passing Young Girls, from "The Songs of Béranger", by Achille Désiré Lefèvre

Passing Young Girls, from "The Songs of Béranger"

Achille Désiré Lefèvre · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis fontana Bunge

Oxalis fontana Bunge

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Smugglers, from "The Songs of Béranger", by Augustin Burdet

The Smugglers, from "The Songs of Béranger"

Augustin Burdet · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Viola multicaulis Jord.

Viola multicaulis Jord.

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Gardener, by Georges Seurat

The Gardener

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Thlaspi montanum L.

Thlaspi montanum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
Iberis spathulata Bergeret

Iberis spathulata Bergeret

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
First Steps, after Millet, by Vincent van Gogh

First Steps, after Millet

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Ranunculus seguieri Vill.

Ranunculus seguieri Vill.

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 8111 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.