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. 22 shown for “Franz Napoleon Heigel” — 60 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:43 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.
Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), by Franz Napoleon Heigel

Henriette Sontag (1806–1854)

Franz Napoleon Heigel · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, King of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards, by B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France

Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, King of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards

B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lola Montez (1818–1861), by Josef Heigel

Lola Montez (1818–1861)

Josef Heigel

Public domainThe Met
Solidago bicolor L.

Solidago bicolor L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise, by Franz Stuckart

Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise

Franz Stuckart · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome, by Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Napoleon Sarony, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Napoleon Sarony

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), by French Painter

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)

French Painter

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commemorating Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise, by Johann Baptist Harnisch

Commemorating Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise

Johann Baptist Harnisch · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, King of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards, by B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, King of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards

B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon Sarony, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Napoleon Sarony

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1860-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Victory of Russians over Napoleon's Army, from a poem by Cremes, by Franz von Hauslab the Younger

Allegory of Victory of Russians over Napoleon's Army, from a poem by Cremes

Franz von Hauslab the Younger · ca. 1814

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon Bonaparte, by Joel Allen, 1755 - 1825

Napoleon Bonaparte

Joel Allen, 1755 - 1825 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Puzzle Picture of Napoleon

Puzzle Picture of Napoleon

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Empress Eugenie (1826–1920), by Marie-Pauline Laurent

Empress Eugenie (1826–1920)

Marie-Pauline Laurent · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 1 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. 4386 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 03:43 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.