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. 22 shown for “Hartmann et Fils” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
Floral print, by Hartmann et Fils

Floral print

Hartmann et Fils · 1799

Public domainThe Met
The Four Seasons, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

The Four Seasons

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1818–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the life of Joan of Arc, by Hartmann et Fils

Scenes from the life of Joan of Arc

Hartmann et Fils · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc, by Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843

Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc

Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Charles Abraham Chasselat

Joan of Arc

Charles Abraham Chasselat · first quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Les Quatre Elements, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Les Quatre Elements

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils, by Antoine Watteau

Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils

Antoine Watteau · 1710?–?1720

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Scene 3 of cartoon for cotton printing:The History of Heny IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketch for Scene 3 of cartoon for cotton printing:The History of Heny IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Quatre Élements, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Quatre Élements

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks: Autumn, by Jean-François Millet

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Fables de La Fontaine, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Fables de La Fontaine

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810-1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Silver Tureen, by Jean Siméon Chardin

The Silver Tureen

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon fragment for Printed Cotton Textile: Friendship Does not Fear Time ['L'Amitie ne Craint du Temps], by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Cartoon fragment for Printed Cotton Textile: Friendship Does not Fear Time ['L'Amitie ne Craint du Temps]

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, by Jean-François Millet

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Cotton Printing: Les Quatre Elements, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Cotton Printing: Les Quatre Elements

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Wild Man Finial

Ewer with Wild Man Finial

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Valley of the Wormsa, by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Valley of the Wormsa

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unfinished cartoon for an alternate design for cotton printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Unfinished cartoon for an alternate design for cotton printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 405 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 105843 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 21:05 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.