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. 16 shown for “Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86” — 17 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 19:28 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.
Architectural Fantasy, by Jean Laurent Legeay

Architectural Fantasy

Jean Laurent Legeay · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Prophete pleurant Jérusalem, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Prophete pleurant Jérusalem

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy, by Jean Laurent Legeay

Architectural Fantasy

Jean Laurent Legeay · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
La fuite en Egypte, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

La fuite en Egypte

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy, by Jean Laurent Legeay

Architectural Fantasy

Jean Laurent Legeay · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Le Christ au puits de Samarie, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Le Christ au puits de Samarie

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Collection of Different Subjects of Vases, Tombs, Ruins and Fountains..., by Jean Laurent Legeay

Collection of Different Subjects of Vases, Tombs, Ruins and Fountains...

Jean Laurent Legeay · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece, vasi invention, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes...", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Frontispiece, vasi invention, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes..."

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyramide surmontée d'un vase monumental, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes...", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Pyramide surmontée d'un vase monumental, from "Collection de divers sujets de vases, tombeaux, ruines et fontaines, utile aux artistes..."

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint-Francois (?) dans un paysage de ruines, by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Saint-Francois (?) dans un paysage de ruines

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastic Fountain

Design for a Fantastic Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Title Page

Design for a Title Page

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tombeau monumental avec urne funéraire au premier plan (Monumental Tomb with Urn in the Foreground)

Tombeau monumental avec urne funéraire au premier plan (Monumental Tomb with Urn in the Foreground)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tombeau monumental avec trois femmes adossées from the series "Tombeaux", by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

Tombeau monumental avec trois femmes adossées from the series "Tombeaux"

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Vase reposant sur deux Sphinx adossés", plate 2 from the series Vasi..., by Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86

"Vase reposant sur deux Sphinx adossés", plate 2 from the series Vasi...

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-09-09 19:28 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.