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. 20 shown for “Jean Paul Marat, French, 1743 - 1793” — 48 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:35 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.
Two Pair of Portraits, presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke, by James Gillray

Two Pair of Portraits, presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke

James Gillray · December 1, 1798

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
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
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat (1743–1793), by Brisson

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat (1743–1793)

Brisson · 1868

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
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745

Title Page

Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean Paul Bignon, Abbé of St. Quentin

Portrait of Jean Paul Bignon, Abbé of St. Quentin

Artist not stated in the record · 1707

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Ornament Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Saint-Morys (Eléonore Elisabeth Angélique de Beauterne, 1742–1824), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Madame de Saint-Morys (Eléonore Elisabeth Angélique de Beauterne, 1742–1824)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1776

Public domainThe Met
Lion Ornament Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Lion Ornament Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (vase des âges) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase with cover (vase des âges) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Putto Ornament Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Putto Ornament Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Ornament Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Four Ornament Designs

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Ornament Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Ornament Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Two Ornament Designs

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 225309 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 2026-09-03 20:35 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.