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 “Jacques Joseph de Gault” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:49 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-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778–1851), Daughter of Louis XVI, by Jacques Joseph de Gault

Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778–1851), Daughter of Louis XVI

Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains, by Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831

Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains

Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six allegories of love, by Jacques Joseph de Gault

Snuffbox with six allegories of love

Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1775–76

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830 · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Souvenir, by Jacques Joseph de Gault

Souvenir

Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Pierre Joseph Demongé Chardigny, French, 1794 - 1866

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Pierre Joseph Demongé Chardigny, French, 1794 - 1866 · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Souvenir, by Jacques Joseph de Gault

Souvenir

Jacques Joseph de Gault · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Arnould-Joseph Pingret, French, 1798 - 1830 · ca. 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with miniatures representing the Diversions of Love and dancing figure, by Jacques Joseph de Gault

Snuffbox with miniatures representing the Diversions of Love and dancing figure

Jacques Joseph de Gault · miniatures ca. 1775, box ca. 1838–47

Public domainThe Met
Cross-section of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu Comique in Paris, by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, German, 1792–1867

Cross-section of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu Comique in Paris

Jacques Ignace Hittorff, German, 1792–1867 · ca. 1825–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl, from the Duc d'Orléans Service, by Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750

Sugar Bowl, from the Duc d'Orléans Service

Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750 · 1787–1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play

Pierre François Drais · 1770–71

Public domainThe Met
Différens détails de la Glacière construite d’Après les dessins de Mr. Belanger, dans les Jardins de Mr Veressere Arcelots, by Jean-François Joseph Lecointe, 1783 - 1858

Différens détails de la Glacière construite d’Après les dessins de Mr. Belanger, dans les Jardins de Mr Veressere Arcelots

Jean-François Joseph Lecointe, 1783 - 1858 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Maison des champs exécutée à Pantin par Belanger Architecte an l’An 1785 pour M. de la Battue Americain, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Maison des champs exécutée à Pantin par Belanger Architecte an l’An 1785 pour M. de la Battue Americain

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788

Title Page

Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with imaginary portrait of the tragic poet Moschion, by Sèvres Manufactory

Plate with imaginary portrait of the tragic poet Moschion

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811–18

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus neglectus Nash

Sporobolus neglectus Nash

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1901

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. 1033 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 694236 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 19:49 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.