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 Laurent Mosnier” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 17:27 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.
Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, by Jean Laurent Mosnier

Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France

Jean Laurent Mosnier · 1790

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
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
Prophete pleurant Jérusalem, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Prophete pleurant Jérusalem

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

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
La fuite en Egypte, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

La fuite en Egypte

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Silver Tureen, by Jean Siméon Chardin

The Silver Tureen

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Le Christ au puits de Samarie, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Le Christ au puits de Samarie

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self Portrait, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Self Portrait

Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Renealmia orinocensis Rusby

Renealmia orinocensis Rusby

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 1986

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

Allegory of Music

Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

Public domainThe Met
Croton glabellus L.

Croton glabellus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sleeping Boy, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Sleeping Boy

Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1774

Public domainThe Met
Dieffenbachia seguine (Jacq.) Schott

Dieffenbachia seguine (Jacq.) Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 2011

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

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Philodendron ornatum Schott

Philodendron ornatum Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ducks Resting in Sunshine, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Ducks Resting in Sunshine

Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1753

Public domainThe Met
Philodendron squamiferum Poepp.

Philodendron squamiferum Poepp.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Golden Age, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

The Golden Age

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Public domainThe Met
Parodiolyra micrantha (Kunth) Davidse & Zuloaga

Parodiolyra micrantha (Kunth) Davidse & Zuloaga

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dog Guarding Dead Game, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Dog Guarding Dead Game

Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1753

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece, vasi invention, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes...", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Frontispiece, vasi invention, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes..."

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ugolino and His Sons, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Ugolino and His Sons

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865–67

Public domainThe Met
Pyramide surmontée d'un vase monumental, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes...", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Pyramide surmontée d'un vase monumental, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes..."

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

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. 125 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 18955 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-09 17:27 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.