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. 19 shown for “Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:26 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.
Design for a Clock, by Jean François Forty

Design for a Clock

Jean François Forty · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projet de Deux Toiletes, by Jean François Forty

Projet de Deux Toiletes

Jean François Forty · 1775–90

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

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
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres de Sculptures en Bronze, by Jean François Forty

Oeuvres de Sculptures en Bronze

Jean François Forty · [1788 ?]

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1786

Public domainThe Met
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'oeuvre (Works), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

L'oeuvre (Works)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 470 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 2026-08-28 06:26 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.