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. 21 shown for “Girard Audran” — 49 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:13 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.
Les proportions du corps humain, mesurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité, by Girard Audran

Les proportions du corps humain, mesurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité

Girard Audran · 1683

Public domainThe Met
Septembre (Sous le protection de Vulcan); Octobre (Sous le protection de Minerve et de Mars) from the suite Les mois grotesques, by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Septembre (Sous le protection de Vulcan); Octobre (Sous le protection de Minerve et de Mars) from the suite Les mois grotesques

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pierre Séguier, by Girard Audran

Portrait of Pierre Séguier

Girard Audran · 1672

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffin, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Coffin

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece for 'Theatrum Vitae Humanae', by Girard Audran

Frontispiece for 'Theatrum Vitae Humanae'

Girard Audran · 1678

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabra, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Candelabra

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Taking of Alexandria, by Girard Audran

The Taking of Alexandria

Girard Audran · 1672–78

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Sculpted Ornament on Plinths, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Designs for Sculpted Ornament on Plinths

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Antioch, by Girard Audran

The Battle of Antioch

Girard Audran · 1672–78

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painting, by Jean Audran

Painting

Jean Audran · 1690

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabra, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Candelabra

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I, by Antoine Watteau

Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I

Antoine Watteau · 1726

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume II, by Antoine Watteau

Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume II

Antoine Watteau · 1728

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candelabra, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Candelabra

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Screens or Balustrades and Putti, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Designs for Screens or Balustrades and Putti

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Sculpted Ornament and a Screen or Balustrade, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Designs for Sculpted Ornament and a Screen or Balustrade

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6143 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 16:13 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.