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. 14 shown for “Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse” — 29 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:15 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.
Portrait de Alexandre Cabanel, by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse

Portrait de Alexandre Cabanel

Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse · 1865

Public domainThe Met
L' Ecu de France, by Adolphe Mouilleron, French, born Paris, France 1820-died Paris, France 1881

L' Ecu de France

Adolphe Mouilleron, French, born Paris, France 1820-died Paris, France 1881 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bone Player, by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse

The Bone Player

Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Andrew Jackson, by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe La Fosse, c. 1810 - 1879

Andrew Jackson

Jean-Baptiste Adolphe La Fosse, c. 1810 - 1879 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Ugolino and His Sons, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Ugolino and His Sons

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865–67

Public domainThe Met
Troops at Rest, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Troops at Rest

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Troops on the March, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Troops on the March

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
La Colombe et Le Tigre. Ma collection de photographies de la Comtesse de Castiglione, by Pierre-Louis Pierson

La Colombe et Le Tigre. Ma collection de photographies de la Comtesse de Castiglione

Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Mosquée de Cordoue and La Giralda et l'Alcazar de Séville, by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

Mosquée de Cordoue and La Giralda et l'Alcazar de Séville

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · [1837]

Public domainThe Met
A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1658

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault, by Melchior Tavernier

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault

Melchior Tavernier · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault, by Melchior Tavernier

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault

Melchior Tavernier · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault, by Melchior Tavernier

Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault

Melchior Tavernier · 1629

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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:15 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.