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 Lepage” — 49 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:29 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.
Cased Pair of Double-Barreled Turn-Off Flintlock Pistols, by Jean Lepage

Cased Pair of Double-Barreled Turn-Off Flintlock Pistols

Jean Lepage · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm.

Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Symphyotrichum foliaceum (Lindl. ex DC.) G.L. Nesom

Symphyotrichum foliaceum (Lindl. ex DC.) G.L. Nesom

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Pair of Percussion Target Pistols with Loading and Cleaning Accessories, Made for Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820–1883), by Jean André Prosper Henri Le Page

Cased Pair of Percussion Target Pistols with Loading and Cleaning Accessories, Made for Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820–1883)

Jean André Prosper Henri Le Page · dated 1829

Public domainThe Met
Juncus pelocarpus E. Mey.

Juncus pelocarpus E. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Female Nude], by Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard

[Female Nude]

Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton

Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Percussion Exhibition Pistol, by Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

Percussion Exhibition Pistol

Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page · dated 1851

Public domainThe Met
Salix glaucophylloides f. lasioclada Fernald

Salix glaucophylloides f. lasioclada Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis mertensii Trin.

Agrostis mertensii Trin.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poling the Marsh Hay, by Peter Henry Emerson

Poling the Marsh Hay

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886

Public domainThe Met
x Elymordeum dutillyanum Lepage

x Elymordeum dutillyanum Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
x Agroelymus colvillensis Lepage

x Agroelymus colvillensis Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex x quebecensis Lepage

Carex x quebecensis Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex x neobigelowii Lepage

Carex x neobigelowii Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex pseudocyperus f. multispicula Lepage

Carex pseudocyperus f. multispicula Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex podocarpa f. pallidior Lepage

Carex podocarpa f. pallidior Lepage

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1949

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18429 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 20:29 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.