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. 18 shown for “Jean Pucelle” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:50 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 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
La Pucelle d'Orleans (The Maid of Orleans)

La Pucelle d'Orleans (The Maid of Orleans)

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy, by Jean Le Noir

The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy

Jean Le Noir · before 1349

Public domainThe Met
A la Pucelle d'Orleans, by Richards

A la Pucelle d'Orleans

Richards · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with the Annunciation

Tapestry with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1410–20

Public domainThe Met
Carex brachystachys Schrank

Carex brachystachys Schrank

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), by Jean Clouet

Guillaume Budé (1467–1540)

Jean Clouet · ca. 1536

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child Enthroned, by Bohemian Painter

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Bohemian Painter · ca. 1345–50

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Unidentified Artist

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Unidentified Artist · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Unidentified Artist

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Unidentified Artist · c. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
The Last Judgment, by Joos van Cleve

The Last Judgment

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

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. 24 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. 16142 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:50 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.