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. 14 shown for “Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942” — 54 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 15:37 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.
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Construction Directions for the Supports, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Construction Directions for the Supports

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · October 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dead Christ with Angels, by Edouard Manet

The Dead Christ with Angels

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Facade Facing the Garden, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Design for a Mass-Operational House Designed by Hector Guimard, Facade Facing the Garden

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · October 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Illustrating Standard Concrete Block Façade Walls (“Murs de Façade ‘Standard’ en Agglomérés”), by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Plate Illustrating Standard Concrete Block Façade Walls (“Murs de Façade ‘Standard’ en Agglomérés”)

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · October 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Illustrating Standard Construction of Doors and Casement Windows (“Construction Standardisé de Portes et Croisées”), by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Plate Illustrating Standard Construction of Doors and Casement Windows (“Construction Standardisé de Portes et Croisées”)

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · October 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Photograph

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Photograph

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Photograph

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standardized Rural House, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Standardized Rural House

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standardized Rural House, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Standardized Rural House

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · October 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standardized Rural House, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Standardized Rural House

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Home of Hector Guimard: Dining Room Buffet [?], by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Home of Hector Guimard: Dining Room Buffet [?]

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House of Hector Guimard, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

House of Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · ca. 1910

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 92 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 15:37 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.