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. 17 shown for “François Roumier” — 45 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 23:59 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.
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs for Sculpted Trophies by François Roumier, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Album of Prints: Designs for Sculpted Trophies by François Roumier

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crest rail of a settee, by François Roumier

Crest rail of a settee

François Roumier · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Livre de plusieurs coins de Bordures Inventez et Gravez par François Roumier, Sculpteur du Roy, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Livre de plusieurs coins de Bordures Inventez et Gravez par François Roumier, Sculpteur du Roy

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1724–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table (one of a pair), by François Rournier

Console table (one of a pair)

François Rournier · 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table (one of a pair), by François Rournier

Console table (one of a pair)

François Rournier · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of three liqueur cups, by Jean-François Roumier

Set of three liqueur cups

Jean-François Roumier · 1788–89

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Title Page

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Carved Trophies, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Designs for Carved Trophies

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail from a Frame or Molding Design, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Detail from a Frame or Molding Design

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Title Page

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Carved Trophies, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Designs for Carved Trophies

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8070 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-01 23:59 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.