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. 24 shown for “Francois de Poilly” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:07 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 Virgin in prayer looking down, in an oval frame, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The Virgin in prayer looking down, in an oval frame, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · 1640–93

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin in prayer, looking up with clouds behind her, in an oval frame, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The Virgin in prayer, looking up with clouds behind her, in an oval frame, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · 1648–81

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An old man crying into a tunic while his sons pull it away from him, by Francois de Poilly

An old man crying into a tunic while his sons pull it away from him

Francois de Poilly · 1724

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The adoration of the shepherds who kneel together at right before the infant Christ, the Virgin and Saint Joseph at left, two angels above, in an octagonal frame, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The adoration of the shepherds who kneel together at right before the infant Christ, the Virgin and Saint Joseph at left, two angels above, in an octagonal frame, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · ca. 1655–93

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A bust portrait of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, flanked by two angels and two allegorical figures, the angel at right standing atop a man with snakes in his hair, by Francois de Poilly

A bust portrait of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, flanked by two angels and two allegorical figures, the angel at right standing atop a man with snakes in his hair

Francois de Poilly · ca. 1640–93

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin in prayer looking down, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The Virgin in prayer looking down, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · ca. 1640–93

Public domainThe Met
Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young woman spinning thread for an arrow, by François II de Poilly

Young woman spinning thread for an arrow

François II de Poilly · 1686–1741

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Andiron, by Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676

Design for an Andiron

Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin seated with the infant Christ sleeping in her lap, in an oval frame, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The Virgin seated with the infant Christ sleeping in her lap, in an oval frame, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · ca. 1655–70

Public domainThe Met
Wrought Iron Grille Designs, by Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70

Wrought Iron Grille Designs

Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the left and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni, by Francois de Poilly

The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the left and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni

Francois de Poilly · ca. 1648–81

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Andiron, by Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676

Design for an Andiron

Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Andiron Designs, by Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70

Andiron Designs

Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1748–51

Public domainThe Met
Wrought Iron Grille Designs, by Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70

Wrought Iron Grille Designs

Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Plan des Caves d'une Maison de Campagne, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Plan des Caves d'une Maison de Campagne

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

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. 2920 matched · 24 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. 617257 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 2026-08-29 00:07 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.