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. 13 shown for “Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674” — 17 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:53 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), by Philippe de Champaigne

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)

Philippe de Champaigne · 1655

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Title Page

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Several Vases Designed by Georges Charmeton, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Album of Prints: Several Vases Designed by Georges Charmeton

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jean Chapelain

Portrait of Jean Chapelain

Artist not stated in the record · 1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses, by Robert Nanteuil, French, 1623 – 1678

Moses

Robert Nanteuil, French, 1623 – 1678 · 1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Eusèbe Renaudot

Portrait of Eusèbe Renaudot

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Marquis de Longveil

Portrait of the Marquis de Longveil

Artist not stated in the record · 1661

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16 matched · 16 examined · 4 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 21:53 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.