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. 17 shown for “Léonard Boudin” — 45 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Commode, by Léonard Boudin

Commode

Léonard Boudin · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia pinnata L.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work and writing table, by Léonard Boudin

Work and writing table

Léonard Boudin · ca. 1761–70

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia pinnata L.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small rectangular table, by Léonard Boudin

Small rectangular table

Léonard Boudin · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Pilea lobulata Urb.

Pilea lobulata Urb.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table, by Léonard Boudin

Dressing table

Léonard Boudin · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Chrysophyllum argenteum Jacq.

Chrysophyllum argenteum Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Figures (Les Bohémiens), by Camille Corot

Landscape with Figures (Les Bohémiens)

Camille Corot · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Sapium jamaicense Sw.

Sapium jamaicense Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chrysophyllum oliviforme L. subsp. oliviforme

Chrysophyllum oliviforme L. subsp. oliviforme

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleopeltis marginata A.R. Sm. & Tejero

Pleopeltis marginata A.R. Sm. & Tejero

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leonard Wood, by Unidentified Artist

Leonard Wood

Unidentified Artist · c. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Leonard, by Unidentified Artist

Daniel Leonard

Unidentified Artist · c. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leonard Wood, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952

Leonard Wood

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952 · June 5, 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leonard Wood, by John Singer Sargent, 12 Jan 1856 - 15 Apr 1925

Leonard Wood

John Singer Sargent, 12 Jan 1856 - 15 Apr 1925 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anders Zorn, by Unidentified Artist

Anders Zorn

Unidentified Artist · c. 1896

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 46378 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 20:00 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.