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. 24 shown for “Gilles Edme Petit” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:04 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.
After-dinner, by Gilles Edme Petit

After-dinner

Gilles Edme Petit

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Oeuvre of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, engraved by Gabriel Huquier, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Album of Prints: Oeuvre of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, engraved by Gabriel Huquier

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening, by Gilles Edme Petit

Evening

Gilles Edme Petit

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: First and Second Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Album of Prints: First and Second Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morning, by Gilles Edme Petit

Morning

Gilles Edme Petit

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Miscellaneous Ornament Designs by Pierre Edme Babel, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Album of Prints: Miscellaneous Ornament Designs by Pierre Edme Babel

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Midday. A Lady Setting Her Watch, by Gilles Edme Petit

Midday. A Lady Setting Her Watch

Gilles Edme Petit

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

Edme Ducatel

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: First Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Album of Prints: First Book of Vases Designed by Edme Bouchardon

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece from "Collection of Portraits", by Etienne Jehandier Desrochers

Frontispiece from "Collection of Portraits"

Etienne Jehandier Desrochers · 1714–41

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Title Page

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard, by Gilles-Antoine Demarteau

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau · 1776–1802

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil d'Ornemens A l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des bâtimens, by Gilles Paul Cauvet

Recueil d'Ornemens A l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des bâtimens

Gilles Paul Cauvet · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil d'Ornemens à l'usage des jeunes artistes, by Gilles Paul Cauvet

Recueil d'Ornemens à l'usage des jeunes artistes

Gilles Paul Cauvet · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Petit paysan au tambourin, by Gilles Demarteau

Petit paysan au tambourin

Gilles Demarteau · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mass of Saint Basil, by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

The Mass of Saint Basil

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Poa perconcinna J.R. Edm.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

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. 57 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. 7831 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-05 07:04 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.