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 “Jean Antoine Laurent” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:05 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
LE PRINTEMPS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LE PRINTEMPS

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1788

Public domainThe Met
L'ÉTÉ, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'ÉTÉ

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau

Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Public domainThe Met
L'HIVER, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'HIVER

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by Jean Antoine Houdon

Winter

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1787

Public domainThe Met
L'AVTOMNE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'AVTOMNE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Title Page

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain, by Laurent Pécheux

Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain

Laurent Pécheux · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs, by Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850

Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs

Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850 · 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Jean Antoine Laurent

Portrait of a Young Woman

Jean Antoine Laurent · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
Bidens hyperborea Greene

Bidens hyperborea Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Music, by Laurent de La Hyre

Allegory of Music

Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cor solo, by Jean Louis Antoine

Cor solo

Jean Louis Antoine · ca. 1850–55

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine de Ruzé, Marquis of Effiat and Longjumeau, superintendant of finances (1626), by Jean Varin

Antoine de Ruzé, Marquis of Effiat and Longjumeau, superintendant of finances (1626)

Jean Varin · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879? · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879? · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840), by Jean Antoine Houdon

Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840)

Jean Antoine Houdon · first modeled ca. 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Armand-Auguste Caqué, French, 1793 - 1881

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

Armand-Auguste Caqué, French, 1793 - 1881 · 1821

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. 690 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 21570 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 06:05 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.