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. 12 shown for “Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 22:17 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

A country woman sitting in landscape with two boys at her side, by Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I

A country woman sitting in landscape with two boys at her side

Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I · 1729–40

Public domainThe Met
Kasseki, officier des Bostangis, plate 19 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Kasseki, officier des Bostangis, plate 19 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Tchinguis, ou Danseuse Turque, plate 54 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Tchinguis, ou Danseuse Turque, plate 54 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Afriquaine, en deshabillé, plate 97 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Afriquaine, en deshabillé, plate 97 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Femme Turque, qui fume sur le Sopha, plate 45 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Femme Turque, qui fume sur le Sopha, plate 45 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Fille Turque, jouant du Canon, plate 50 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Fille Turque, jouant du Canon, plate 50 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Fille Turque, jouant du Tehegour, plate 51 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Fille Turque, jouant du Tehegour, plate 51 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Femme Juive, en habit de cèrèmonie, plate 64 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Femme Juive, en habit de cèrèmonie, plate 64 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Femme Persienne, plate 91 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Femme Persienne, plate 91 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Le Moufti, ou Chef de la Loy, plate 20 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Le Moufti, ou Chef de la Loy, plate 20 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Aga, ou Gentilhomme Turc, plate 39 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Aga, ou Gentilhomme Turc, plate 39 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
Soldat Albanois, plate 78 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", by Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Soldat Albanois, plate 78 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · 1714–15

Public domainThe Met
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. 80 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 22:17 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.