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. 21 shown for “Jacques Louis David” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 12:53 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.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
An Art Lesson, by Unknown, French

An Art Lesson

Unknown, French · 1820s

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Plans Coupes Elévations et detail des deux Chaumières au cidevant jardin de Chantilly/ par le Roy, Architect, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plans Coupes Elévations et detail des deux Chaumières au cidevant jardin de Chantilly/ par le Roy, Architect

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, by Jacques Louis David

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852), by Jacques Louis David

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)

Jacques Louis David · 1816

Public domainThe Met
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Louis Adolphe Thiers, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier, by Briceau, French, 16..–17..

Album of Prints: Ornament Designs by Various Artists Including Briceau, Lefebvre, Laget, Durant, Badollet, and Vauquier

Briceau, French, 16..–17.. · 1650-1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli, by François Marius Granet

Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli

François Marius Granet · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker, by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · 1788–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Napoleon I, by baron François Gérard

Portrait of Napoleon I

baron François Gérard · designed 1805, woven 1808–11

Public domainThe Met
Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene from Ancient History: Cup Offered to an Invalid, by Jacques Louis David

Scene from Ancient History: Cup Offered to an Invalid

Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers, by Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936

Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers

Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cardinal Pacca, by Jacques Louis David

The Cardinal Pacca

Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Pyramid, by Jacques Louis David

Study of a Pyramid

Jacques Louis David · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Paris and Helen, by Jacques Louis David

Paris and Helen

Jacques Louis David · ca. 1782–86

Public domainThe Met
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. 1991 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 128270 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 12:53 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.