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. 14 shown for “Jacques Brillant (or Briant)” — 43 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:24 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.
Snuffbox, by Jacques Brillant (or Briant)

Snuffbox

Jacques Brillant (or Briant) · 1739–40

Public domainThe Met
3p Massachusetts Colonial Issue embossed revenue stamped paper on document

3p Massachusetts Colonial Issue embossed revenue stamped paper on document

Artist not stated in the record · May 1, 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Critonia morifolia (Mill.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Critonia morifolia (Mill.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont, by Dupont, Edgar

Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont

Dupont, Edgar · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moonlight over an Alpine Village, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Moonlight over an Alpine Village

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - September, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conostegia vulcanicola Donn. Sm.

Conostegia vulcanicola Donn. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miconia desmantha Benth.

Miconia desmantha Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilocosta nubicola Almeda

Pilocosta nubicola Almeda

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clidemia globuliflora (Cogn.) L.O. Williams

Clidemia globuliflora (Cogn.) L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteris altissima Poir.

Pteris altissima Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valse Brillante, by Minnetta Good, born New York City 1895-died New York City 1946

Valse Brillante

Minnetta Good, born New York City 1895-died New York City 1946 · ca. 1935-1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ladenbergia heterophylla (Wedd.) Standl.

Ladenbergia heterophylla (Wedd.) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glossoloma tetragonum Hanst.

Glossoloma tetragonum Hanst.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 2002

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 249348 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 06:24 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.