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. 17 shown for “Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1754 - 1811” — 56 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:37 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.
Portrait of a man to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a man to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–1811

Public domainThe Met
Joel Barlow, by Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1754 - 1811

Joel Barlow

Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1754 - 1811 · c. 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a man to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a man to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–1811

Public domainThe Met
William Loughton Smith, by Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1754 - 1811

William Loughton Smith

Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1754 - 1811 · 1798-99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Citoyen Boncourt, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of Citoyen Boncourt

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1781–1811

Public domainThe Met
Album of Cartouches, Framing Devices and Carriage Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Girard, French, active ca.1750 – ca.1771

Album of Cartouches, Framing Devices and Carriage Designs

Jean-Baptiste Girard, French, active ca.1750 – ca.1771 · 1754–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, to left, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, to left

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1781–1811

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum

United States National Museum

Artist not stated in the record · Undated

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Madame Récamier, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of Madame Récamier

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–1811

Public domainThe Met
Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of E.C. Genet, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of E.C. Genet

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1793

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mr. Cowper of America, to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of Mr. Cowper of America, to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a woman to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a woman to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–93

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a woman to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a woman to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–99

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a woman in a bonnet, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a woman in a bonnet

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–99

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a man in uniform to right, by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of a man in uniform to right

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1786–99

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762−1817), by Gilles Louis Chrétien

Portrait of Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762−1817)

Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1793

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. 16 matched · 16 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. 2120 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 06:37 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.