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 Nicolas Pique” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:11 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.
Patch box, by Jean Nicolas Pique

Patch box

Jean Nicolas Pique · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Violoncello, by François-Louis Pique

Violoncello

François-Louis Pique · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix, Comte du Muy and Marshal of France (1711–1775), by Jean Jacques Caffiéri

Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix, Comte du Muy and Marshal of France (1711–1775)

Jean Jacques Caffiéri · 1776

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

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
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brother Philippe's Geese, by Nicolas Lancret

Brother Philippe's Geese

Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1736

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Servant Justified, by Nicolas Lancret

The Servant Justified

Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine

Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Settee (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

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. 522 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. 21353 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 2026-09-05 10:11 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.