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. 24 shown for “Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867” — 29 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:17 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Merchand d'Amour, by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Merchand d'Amour

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Woman in an Armchair, by Jacob Backer

Old Woman in an Armchair

Jacob Backer

Public domainThe Met
Marchand d'Amour, by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Marchand d'Amour

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Colombes et sangliers, by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Colombes et sangliers

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · ca. 1816–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Monumens de Paris, by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Monumens de Paris

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Monuments de Paris, by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Monuments de Paris

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal Showing Henry IV of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis (1573–1642), by Guillaume Dupré

Medal Showing Henry IV of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis (1573–1642)

Guillaume Dupré · dated 1603

Public domainThe Met
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller), by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal Showing Henry II of France

Medal Showing Henry II of France

Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Dessus de porte en bas relief, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Dessus de porte en bas relief

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon

[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]

Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d'une maison de 6 toises de face, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation d'une maison de 6 toises de face

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Dessus de porte en bas relief, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Dessus de porte en bas relief

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in an Apse, by Robert Campin

Virgin and Child in an Apse

Robert Campin

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d'une maison de 7 toises de face, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation d'une maison de 7 toises de face

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d'une maison de 11 toises de face, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation d'une maison de 11 toises de face

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Elevation d'un Pavillon de 11 toises du còté du jardin, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevation d'un Pavillon de 11 toises du còté du jardin

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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. 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. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-09-01 22:17 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.