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 Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:25 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 Death of Harmonia, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Death of Harmonia

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1740–41

Public domainThe Met
Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flight Into Egypt, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight Into Egypt, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Etchings by Amigoni, an Unknown Artist, and Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, by Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752

Album of Prints: Etchings by Amigoni, an Unknown Artist, and Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre

Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rape of Europa, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Rape of Europa

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Noses, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of Noses

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Impromtu Dance (Le Bal improvisé), by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Impromtu Dance (Le Bal improvisé)

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Head, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Study of a Head

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain with a Naiad Seated on a Shell (Une fontaine avec une näiade assise sur une conque), by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Fountain with a Naiad Seated on a Shell (Une fontaine avec une näiade assise sur une conque)

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Ears, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of Ears

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beggar Family, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Beggar Family

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1735–37

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Head, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Head

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Chinese Masquerade (La Mascarade chinoise), by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Chinese Masquerade (La Mascarade chinoise)

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Child's Head, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Child's Head

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Flight into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Noses, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of Noses

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague in Milan, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

St. Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague in Milan

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Head, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Head

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet by Transforming the Ships into Sea Goddesses, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet by Transforming the Ships into Sea Goddesses

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Eyes, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of Eyes

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca. 1748

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Title Page

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1773

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. 946 matched · 24 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. 137 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 2026-09-06 03:25 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.