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 François Rousseau, French, born ca. 1740” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:00 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 Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Eugenie ou la Noblesse, by Jean François Rousseau, French, born ca. 1740

Eugenie ou la Noblesse

Jean François Rousseau, French, born ca. 1740 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau (le Douanier)

The Repast of the Lion

Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907

Public domainThe Met
Designs of Carriage Parts, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Designs of Carriage Parts

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, by Jean-François Millet

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Public domainThe Met
Designs of Carriage Parts, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Designs of Carriage Parts

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Cabriolet, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Cabriolet

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks: Autumn, by Jean-François Millet

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Heads, a Woman and Two Children

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Calèche à Bancs, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Calèche à Bancs

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

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
Cabriolet, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Cabriolet

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter, by Jean Marc Nattier

Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter

Jean Marc Nattier · 1749

Public domainThe Met
Cabriolet, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Cabriolet

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

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
Jean Marc Nattier (1685–1766), by Louis Tocqué

Jean Marc Nattier (1685–1766)

Louis Tocqué · ca. 1740

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
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

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
Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair), by Georges Jacob

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)

Georges Jacob · 1784

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
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. 310 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. 270268 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 2026-09-03 05:00 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.