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. 18 shown for “Gaspard Duchange” — 46 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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 penitent Mary Magdalene in the wilderness, by Gaspard Duchange

The penitent Mary Magdalene in the wilderness

Gaspard Duchange · 1682–1757

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Her Maidens, by Gaspard Duchange, French, born Paris, France 1662-died Paris, France 1757

Diana and Her Maidens

Gaspard Duchange, French, born Paris, France 1662-died Paris, France 1757 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris, by Gaspard Duchange

The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris

Gaspard Duchange · ca. 1713–20

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of the Amazons, by Gaspard Duchange

The Battle of the Amazons

Gaspard Duchange · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Title Page

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris, by Gaspard Duchange

The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris

Gaspard Duchange · ca. 1713–20

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 17: The exchange of the two princesses in Hendaye; allegorical scene with Anne of Austria and Elizabeth of Bourbon standing on a bridge holding hands, from "Recueil de la Galerie du Luxembourg", by Benoit Audran the Elder

Plate 17: The exchange of the two princesses in Hendaye; allegorical scene with Anne of Austria and Elizabeth of Bourbon standing on a bridge holding hands, from "Recueil de la Galerie du Luxembourg"

Benoit Audran the Elder · 1707–10

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Ceiling Design

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory for Garden Fountains, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Allegory for Garden Fountains

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Scene with Aurora, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Allegorical Scene with Aurora

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Scene with Minerva and Apollo, by Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704

Allegorical Scene with Minerva and Apollo

Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704 · 1707–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Ceiling Designs, by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Album of Ceiling Designs

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1700–15

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 67 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-03 05:16 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.