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 “Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:07 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 Return of the Cattle, by Hubert Robert

The Return of the Cattle

Hubert Robert · ca. 1773–75

Public domainThe Met
The Well, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Well

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Swing, by Hubert Robert

The Swing

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

Title Page

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Portico of a Country Mansion, by Hubert Robert

The Portico of a Country Mansion

Hubert Robert · 1773

Public domainThe Met
The Triumphal Arch, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Triumphal Arch

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wandering Minstrels, by Hubert Robert

Wandering Minstrels

Hubert Robert · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
The Statue Before the Ruins, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Statue Before the Ruins

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Fallen Tree, by Hubert Robert

Landscape with a Fallen Tree

Hubert Robert · 1764

Public domainThe Met
The Stairs by the Four Posts, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Stairs by the Four Posts

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mouth of a Cave, by Hubert Robert

The Mouth of a Cave

Hubert Robert · 1784

Public domainThe Met
The Pulley, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Pulley

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Buste, by Hubert Robert

Le Buste

Hubert Robert · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

Title Page

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Sarcophage, by Hubert Robert

Le Sarcophage

Hubert Robert · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Sarcophagus, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Sarcophagus

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Galerie Antique, by Hubert Robert

La Galerie Antique

Hubert Robert · ca. 1763–65

Public domainThe Met
The Ancient Temple, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Ancient Temple

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Puits, by Hubert Robert

Le Puits

Hubert Robert · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Italian Cook

The Italian Cook

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Poteau, by Hubert Robert

Le Poteau

Hubert Robert · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Gardens of the Villa Madama, near Rome

The Gardens of the Villa Madama, near Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Temple Antique, by Hubert Robert

Le Temple Antique

Hubert Robert · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Italian Yarn-Winder

The Italian Yarn-Winder

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

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. 82 matched · 24 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. 57 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 07:07 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.