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. 20 shown for “Gabriel de Algora” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 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.
Gun with Flintlock a la moda, by Gabriel de Algora

Gun with Flintlock a la moda

Gabriel de Algora · dated 1744

Public domainThe Met
Sida rhombifolia L.

Sida rhombifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a la moda, by Gabriel de Algora

Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks a la moda

Gabriel de Algora · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
James Gabriel Berret

James Gabriel Berret

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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
James Gabriel Berret

James Gabriel Berret

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan, by Paul Cézanne

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
James Gabriel Berret

James Gabriel Berret

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel

Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
James Gabriel Berret

James Gabriel Berret

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Musical Party, by Gabriël Metsu

A Musical Party

Gabriël Metsu · 1659

Public domainThe Met
James Gabriel Berret

James Gabriel Berret

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Turkish Patrol, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Turkish Patrol

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · ca. 1855–56

Public domainThe Met
Gabriel Duvall, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Gabriel Duvall

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated at a Window, by Gabriël Metsu

A Woman Seated at a Window

Gabriël Metsu · early 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Grille d’appui posée a l’entrée du Sanctuaire de l’Eglise du Seminaire de Messieurs de l’Oratoire, executée et composée par Gabriel Bonthomme, by Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775

Grille d’appui posée a l’entrée du Sanctuaire de l’Eglise du Seminaire de Messieurs de l’Oratoire, executée et composée par Gabriel Bonthomme

Gabriel Bonthomme, France, active ca. 1775 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle, by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Scissors, by Gabriel de la Vega

Scissors

Gabriel de la Vega · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Broth bowl with cover (écuelle), by Gabriel Tillet

Broth bowl with cover (écuelle)

Gabriel Tillet · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, by Philippe de Champaigne

The Annunciation

Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1644

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. 861 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 617704 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:50 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.