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. 20 shown for “Jacques Blanchard” — 49 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 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.
Angelica and Medoro, by Jacques Blanchard

Angelica and Medoro

Jacques Blanchard · possibly early 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Eucosma graziella

Eucosma graziella

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Charles David

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Charles David · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Epiblema luctuosana

Epiblema luctuosana

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vulcan forging the armor of Achilles, by Pierre Daret

Vulcan forging the armor of Achilles

Pierre Daret · 1624–75

Public domainThe Met
Eucosma atascosana

Eucosma atascosana

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Carlo Cignani

Charity

Carlo Cignani · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Pelochrista collilonga

Pelochrista collilonga

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
It is No Longer Lisette, from "The Complete Works of Béranger", by Tony Johannot

It is No Longer Lisette, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

Tony Johannot · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Phaneta linitipunctana

Phaneta linitipunctana

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Court Attire, from "The Complete Works of Béranger", by Alfred Johannot

The Court Attire, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

Alfred Johannot · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Eucosma diabolana

Eucosma diabolana

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal with a handle and a hieroglyphic inscription

Stamp seal with a handle and a hieroglyphic inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gretchena nymphana

Gretchena nymphana

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bouquet of Violets, by Eva Gonzalès

The Bouquet of Violets

Eva Gonzalès · ca. 1877–78

Public domainThe Met
Phaneta mayelisana

Phaneta mayelisana

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eucosma guttulana

Eucosma guttulana

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phaneta verecundana

Phaneta verecundana

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eucosma griselda

Eucosma griselda

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sonia paraplesiana

Sonia paraplesiana

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1968

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9977 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-04 04:25 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.