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. 21 shown for “Jules Hardouin Mansart, French, 1646–1708” — 34 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:07 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 the Marble Floor of the Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin Mansart

Design for the Marble Floor of the Dôme des Invalides, Paris

Jules Hardouin Mansart · 1691–98

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Marble Floor of the Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin Mansart

Design for the Marble Floor of the Dôme des Invalides, Paris

Jules Hardouin Mansart · 1691–98

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Title Page

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porte et Cheminée de la Salle du Billard à Versailles, by Jules Hardouin Mansart

Porte et Cheminée de la Salle du Billard à Versailles

Jules Hardouin Mansart · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, page 71 from "Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain", by Jean Berain

Plate, page 71 from "Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain"

Jean Berain · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door and Chimney of the Billiards room at Versailles, plate I from "Portes a Placard et Lambris", by Jean Le Pautre

Door and Chimney of the Billiards room at Versailles, plate I from "Portes a Placard et Lambris"

Jean Le Pautre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain, by Jean Berain

Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain

Jean Berain · 1711 or after

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PLAN ET ELEVATION DU BALDAQUIN DU VAL DE GRACE, by Jules Hardouin Mansart, French, 1646–1708

PLAN ET ELEVATION DU BALDAQUIN DU VAL DE GRACE

Jules Hardouin Mansart, French, 1646–1708 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panels from the shutters formerly in the Chapel Room at Versailles, by Robert de Cotte

Panels from the shutters formerly in the Chapel Room at Versailles

Robert de Cotte · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richard Morris Hunt, by Karl Theodore Bitter

Richard Morris Hunt

Karl Theodore Bitter · 1891, cast 1892

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veue du chasteau de Versailles (View of Versailles, garden facade), by Adam Perelle

Veue du chasteau de Versailles (View of Versailles, garden facade)

Adam Perelle · 1680s

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24 matched · 24 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 2026-09-07 11:07 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.