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-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794” — 62 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:27 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.
L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York], by Anonymous, French, 18th century

L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Title Page

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Livre d'Ornemens, by Juste Aurèle Meissonnier

Livre d'Ornemens

Juste Aurèle Meissonnier · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Music, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Music

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1740–89

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres Diverses de Lalonde. Tome 2., by Richard de Lalonde

Oeuvres Diverses de Lalonde. Tome 2.

Richard de Lalonde · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Clock, Title Page to 'Cahier de six Pendules', by Jean François Forty

Design for a Clock, Title Page to 'Cahier de six Pendules'

Jean François Forty · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

Autumn (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle · 1742–45

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Sultan, by Louis Michel Halbou

Le Sultan

Louis Michel Halbou · ca. 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a man with a beard, by Louis Marin Bonnet

Head of a man with a beard

Louis Marin Bonnet · ca. 1755–93

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Lawrence at the Stake, by Anonymous

Saint Lawrence at the Stake

Anonymous · ca. 1700–29

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening, by Gilles Edme Petit

Evening

Gilles Edme Petit

Public domainThe Met
Elévations et Profils de différens Lambris d'appui, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elévations et Profils de différens Lambris d'appui

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morning, by Gilles Edme Petit

Morning

Gilles Edme Petit

Public domainThe Met
Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Rosette Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 1416 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 2026-09-05 05:27 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.