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 “J. L. Benoist” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:46 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.
Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France, by J. L. Benoist

Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France

J. L. Benoist · 1800–1840

Public domainThe Met
Brosimum oligandrum (Benoist) E. M. Gardner & Zerega

Brosimum oligandrum (Benoist) E. M. Gardner & Zerega

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France, by J. L. Benoist

Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France

J. L. Benoist · 1800–1840

Public domainThe Met
Duguetia calycina Benoist

Duguetia calycina Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Eusiphon geayi Benoist

Eusiphon geayi Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903), by Luigi Palma di Cesnola

A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903)

Luigi Palma di Cesnola · 1885–1904

Public domainThe Met
Pourouma bicolor subsp. scobina (Benoist) C.C. Berg & Heusden

Pourouma bicolor subsp. scobina (Benoist) C.C. Berg & Heusden

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Century Vase, by Karl L. H. Müller

Century Vase

Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Aspidosperma album (Vahl) Benoist ex Pichon

Aspidosperma album (Vahl) Benoist ex Pichon

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring (one of a set of four), by Edme Bouchardon

Spring (one of a set of four)

Edme Bouchardon · probably mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Jungia mitis Benoist

Jungia mitis Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Louise, Empress of the French, by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard

Marie Louise, Empress of the French

Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Pourouma minor Benoist

Pourouma minor Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Percussion Longrifle, by Joseph Douglass Jr.

Percussion Longrifle

Joseph Douglass Jr. · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
Axinaea quitensis Benoist

Axinaea quitensis Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1995 to 14 Jul 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Psychotria kappleri (Miq.) Müll. Arg. ex Benoist

Psychotria kappleri (Miq.) Müll. Arg. ex Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parade Helmet à l'Antique

Parade Helmet à l'Antique

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Salpichroa proboscidea Benoist

Salpichroa proboscidea Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Public domainThe Met
Licania canescens Benoist

Licania canescens Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim vase, by Union Porcelain Works

Pilgrim vase

Union Porcelain Works · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Duguetia calycina Benoist

Duguetia calycina Benoist

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1987

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. 8334 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2234497 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 15:46 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.