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-François-Antoine Bovy” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 23:04 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.
Frantz Liszt (1811–1866), by Jean-François-Antoine Bovy

Frantz Liszt (1811–1866)

Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1877), by Jean-François-Antoine Bovy

François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1877)

Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · probably mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design, by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century

Panel Design

Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis-Philippe and Building of the French Railways, by Jean-François-Antoine Bovy

Louis-Philippe and Building of the French Railways

Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1842

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design, by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century

Panel Design

Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Universal Exhibition of London, 1862, by Jean-François-Antoine Bovy

Universal Exhibition of London, 1862

Jean-François-Antoine Bovy · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Title Page

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
MOMUS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

MOMUS

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchante by the Sea, by Camille Corot

Bacchante by the Sea

Camille Corot · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Door Design, by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century

Door Design

Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom"), by Camille Corot

The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")

Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857

Public domainThe Met
LA CAUSE BADINE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA CAUSE BADINE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
LA FAVORITE DE FLORE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA FAVORITE DE FLORE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LA FOLIE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LA FOLIE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE MARCHAND D'ORVIETAN, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LE MARCHAND D'ORVIETAN

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE FRILEUX, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LE FRILEUX

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Design, by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century

Panel Design

Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · mid- 18th century

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. 92 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 2026-09-06 23:04 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.