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. 18 shown for “Idylle” — 44 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 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 favorite object of his studies is the collection of Idylles by Madame Deshoulières, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals", by J. J. Grandville

The favorite object of his studies is the collection of Idylles by Madame Deshoulières, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville · ca. 1837–47

Public domainThe Met
Idylle

Idylle

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (one of a pair), by Josef Danhauser

Side chair (one of a pair)

Josef Danhauser · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
A Spring Idyl, Illustration for The Book Buyer (III, No. 10, November 1886, p. 443), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

A Spring Idyl, Illustration for The Book Buyer (III, No. 10, November 1886, p. 443)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peace, an idyll, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 6, 1871, by Honoré Daumier

Peace, an idyll, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 6, 1871

Honoré Daumier · March 6, 1871

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traite des negre

Traite des negre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd's Idyll, by François Boucher

Shepherd's Idyll

François Boucher · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of an unidentified Union soldier

Carte-de-visite of an unidentified Union soldier

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Falcon's Bath

The Falcon's Bath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1415

Public domainThe Met
V-Mail letter sheet

V-Mail letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene), by Paul Cézanne

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
The Wealth of Autumn, by Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888

The Wealth of Autumn

Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Girl Seated, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938

Young Girl Seated

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938 · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The aviator march and two-step by James M. Fulton, by Fulton, James M. 1873-1940

The aviator march and two-step by James M. Fulton

Fulton, James M. 1873-1940 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wiley Family, by William Williams, born Bristol, England 1727-died Bristol, England 1791

The Wiley Family

William Williams, born Bristol, England 1727-died Bristol, England 1791 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature, by Andrew W. Warren, born Coventry, NY 1823-died New York City 1873

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature

Andrew W. Warren, born Coventry, NY 1823-died New York City 1873 · 1859

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 37 matched · 37 examined · 21 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 09:25 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.