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. 12 shown for “Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 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.
CHAPELLE DE SAINTE MARGUERITE., by Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740

CHAPELLE DE SAINTE MARGUERITE.

Jacques Bourlet, French, 1663–1740 · 1705-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Title Page

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Ironwork Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornamental Ironwork Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Ironwork Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornamental Ironwork Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ironwork Gate Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ironwork Gate Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Ironwork Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornamental Ironwork Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Ironwork Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornamental Ironwork Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Ironwork Design, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornamental Ironwork Design

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Title page, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1663

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Fruits de L'Automne

Les Fruits de L'Automne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735-1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Ornamental Ironwork Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Album of Ornamental Ironwork Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Ornament Designs

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 396 matched · 40 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 2026-09-02 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.