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 de Saint-Igny” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:13 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.
Bust of a Young Man, by Jean de Saint-Igny

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104

Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cavaliers in a City Square, by Jean de Saint-Igny

Cavaliers in a City Square

Jean de Saint-Igny · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Jean Marie Soulier, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean Marie Soulier

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman with a Sword, by Abraham Bosse

Gentleman with a Sword

Abraham Bosse · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.

Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Amorous Widower, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

The Amorous Widower

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.

Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape, by Abraham Bosse

Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape

Abraham Bosse · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun

Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau, by Abraham Bosse

Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau

Abraham Bosse · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Possibly Jean Noel Destréhan, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Possibly Jean Noel Destréhan

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Man Holding a Crop, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

A Man Holding a Crop

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Jean-Victor Moreau, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean-Victor Moreau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Gentleman Seen from the Back Indicating a Landscape

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Jean Joseph Coiron, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean Joseph Coiron

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman in a Cape and Plumed Hat Seen from the Back, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Gentleman in a Cape and Plumed Hat Seen from the Back

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Jean Simon Chaudron, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean Simon Chaudron

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman Holding a Crop, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Gentleman Holding a Crop

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Jean Salomon Fazi, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Jean Salomon Fazi

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Gentleman Seen from the Back Pointing towards a Chateau

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Acer saccharum Marshall

Acer saccharum Marshall

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentleman with a Glove, by Anonymous, French, 17th century

Gentleman with a Glove

Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Gratiola aurea Pursh

Gratiola aurea Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

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. 6598 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. 211 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 01:13 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.