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-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:23 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.
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a Chimneypiece

Jean Charles Delafosse

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Wall Monument

Elevation of a Wall Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Ewer, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a Ewer

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1754–91

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Fishing, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophies with Attributes of Fishing

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1734–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Ewer, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a Ewer

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1754–91

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Fishing, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophies with Attributes of Fishing

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1734–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a frame, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a frame

Jean Charles Delafosse · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Title Page

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a "Grande Galerie", by Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a "Grande Galerie"

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophy Design

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation and Plan for a Round Mausoleum, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Elevation and Plan for a Round Mausoleum

Jean Charles Delafosse

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Trophy Design

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title page from Cinquieme Livre de Trophées, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Title page from Cinquieme Livre de Trophées

Jean Charles Delafosse · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Figures Bathing, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Architectural Fantasy with Figures Bathing

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A New Book of Vases, by Jean Charles Delafosse

A New Book of Vases

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for Trophy with Military Attributes, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Trophy with Military Attributes

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso), by Jean Charles Delafosse

Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Public domainThe Met
Fantasy of Classical Sculpture, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Fantasy of Classical Sculpture

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caricature of Engravers "à la Grecque", by Jean Charles Delafosse

Caricature of Engravers "à la Grecque"

Jean Charles Delafosse

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy with Fountain, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Architectural Fantasy with Fountain

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caricature of a Sculptor, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Caricature of a Sculptor

Jean Charles Delafosse

Public domainThe Met
Design for a panel, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for a panel

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées, by Jean Charles Delafosse

Cayer de 6 Grilles de Chenets et de Feux de Cheminées

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1740–89

Public domainThe Met
INSTRUMENTS DE SYMPHONIE, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

INSTRUMENTS DE SYMPHONIE

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

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. 42 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. 219118 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 14:23 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.