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 “Henri Jean Douté” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:36 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.
Souvenir, by Henri Jean Douté

Souvenir

Henri Jean Douté · 1773–74

Public domainThe Met
Callicarpa arborea Roxb.

Callicarpa arborea Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri d'Albret (1503–55), King of Navarre, by Léonard Limosin

Henri d'Albret (1503–55), King of Navarre

Léonard Limosin · 1556

Public domainThe Met
Panicum repens L.

Panicum repens L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (commode servante or commode desserte), by Jean Henri Riesener

Side table (commode servante or commode desserte)

Jean Henri Riesener · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Theobroma glaucum H. Karst.

Theobroma glaucum H. Karst.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), by Jean Henri Riesener

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Author's Group, by Eugene L'Africain, 1859 - 1892

Author's Group

Eugene L'Africain, 1859 - 1892 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant), by Jean Henri Riesener

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres, Duke of Parma, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres, Duke of Parma

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau (le Douanier)

The Repast of the Lion

Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of barber Jean Jacques Desiré

Carte-de-visite of barber Jean Jacques Desiré

Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri II, King of France, by Léonard Limosin

Henri II, King of France

Léonard Limosin · probably ca. 1555–60

Public domainThe Met
Jean Leon Gerome, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Jean Leon Gerome

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Catafalque of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergue, Notre Dame, Paris, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Catafalque of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergue, Notre Dame, Paris

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · September 9, 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Arthur St. Claire

Arthur St. Claire

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Letters, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for Letters

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sofa, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The Sofa

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · ca. 1894–96

Public domainThe Met
[Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral], by Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq

[Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral]

Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq · 1852

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. 1936 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 130041 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 15:36 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.