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. 19 shown for “Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744” — 31 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:53 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.
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI, by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin · April 1, 1745

Public domainThe Met
Repast of the Hunters, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Repast of the Hunters

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · early 1740s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I, by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin · April 1, 1745

Public domainThe Met
The Vow of Jephthah, by Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744

The Vow of Jephthah

Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744 · 1725–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I, by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin · April 1745

Public domainThe Met
Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely, by Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely

Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744 · 1725–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L' Indifférent, by Vienna

L' Indifférent

Vienna · 1741–44

Public domainThe Met
PARTIE DE CHASSE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

PARTIE DE CHASSE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Indifferent, by Meissen Manufactory

L'Indifferent

Meissen Manufactory · modeled 1738, this example ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726

Title Page

Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 16), by William Hogarth

The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 16)

William Hogarth · 1723–24

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs Invented by Jean Berain, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs Invented by Jean Berain

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain, by Jean Berain

Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain

Jean Berain · 1711 or after

Public domainThe Met
Ornemens de peinture et de sculpture, qui sont dans la Galerie d’Apollon, au Chasteau du Louvre, et dans le grand Appartement du Roy, au Palais des Tuilleries. Dessinez et gravez par les Srs. Berain, Chauveau, et le Moine., by Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726

Ornemens de peinture et de sculpture, qui sont dans la Galerie d’Apollon, au Chasteau du Louvre, et dans le grand Appartement du Roy, au Palais des Tuilleries. Dessinez et gravez par les Srs. Berain, Chauveau, et le Moine.

Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé, by Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752

Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé

Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fables, Vol. I & II, by John Gay

Fables, Vol. I & II

John Gay · 1729–47

Public domainThe Met
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

A Rake's Progress, Plate 2

William Hogarth · June 25, 1735

Public domainThe Met
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

A Rake's Progress, Plate 2

William Hogarth · June 25, 1735

Public domainThe Met
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

A Rake's Progress, Plate 2

William Hogarth · June 25, 1735

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 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 2026-09-10 17:53 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.