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-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783” — 30 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:04 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Fantastical Landscape with a Column, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape with a Column

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastical Landscape with an Obelisk, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape with an Obelisk

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Suittes de Décorations, de six feuilles, a l’usage des Théâtre, Panneaux, Carosses, &c, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Suittes de Décorations, de six feuilles, a l’usage des Théâtre, Panneaux, Carosses, &c

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom), by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783

Le Métier à faire le Velours (The Velvet Loom)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783 · 1707–83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Frontispiece, by Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776

Allegorical Frontispiece

Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LA BALANCEUSE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA BALANCEUSE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville, by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766

Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville

Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766 · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Festival Prints, by François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754

Album of Festival Prints

François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754 · mid- 18th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 30 matched · 30 examined · 1 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 10:04 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.