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. 22 shown for “Jean Paul Laurens” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:44 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 Last Moments of Maximilian, by Jean Paul Laurens

The Last Moments of Maximilian

Jean Paul Laurens · 1884

Public domainThe Met
A Soldier, by Jean Paul Laurens, French, born Fourquevoux, France 1838-died Paris, France 1921

A Soldier

Jean Paul Laurens, French, born Fourquevoux, France 1838-died Paris, France 1921 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Mother and Child and Burning Village, by Paul Albert Laurens, French, born Paris, France 1870-died Toulon, France 1934

Mother and Child and Burning Village

Paul Albert Laurens, French, born Paris, France 1870-died Toulon, France 1934 · n.d.

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

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marquis Jean Deydé (1617–1687), by Christophe Veyrier

Marquis Jean Deydé (1617–1687)

Christophe Veyrier · 1684

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan, by Paul Cézanne

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), by Jean Paul Marat, French, 1743 - 1793

Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793)

Jean Paul Marat, French, 1743 - 1793 · ca. 1793-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, by Paul Gauguin

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

Paul Gauguin · 1896

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814

John Paul Jones

Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Paul et Virginie, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Paul et Virginie

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Henry Laurens, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Henry Laurens

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Henry Laurens, by B. B. Ellis

Henry Laurens

B. B. Ellis · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Henry Laurens, by Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1735? - 1804

Henry Laurens

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1735? - 1804 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
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. 1559 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 148347 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 03:44 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.