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. 12 shown for “La Maison qui brule” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:15 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

La Maison qui brule

La Maison qui brule

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Petit Balçon et suivant, qui se voient a la Facade de la maison de lauteur, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Petit Balçon et suivant, qui se voient a la Facade de la maison de lauteur

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1759–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Differents fabriques qui se trouvens dans le plan de la Maison de Me. Belanger, à Santeny, by Wandlaincourt, French, active early 19th century

Differents fabriques qui se trouvens dans le plan de la Maison de Me. Belanger, à Santeny

Wandlaincourt, French, active early 19th century · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bryowijkia ambigua (Hook.) Nog.

Bryowijkia ambigua (Hook.) Nog.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pogonatum gymnophyllum Mitt.

Pogonatum gymnophyllum Mitt.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer laevigatum Wall.

Acer laevigatum Wall.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campanula rapunculus L.

Campanula rapunculus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lonicera periclymenum L.

Lonicera periclymenum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Maison des Cariatides, Dijon, by Frederick G. Hall, born Baltimore, MD 1879-died Boston, MA 1946

La Maison des Cariatides, Dijon

Frederick G. Hall, born Baltimore, MD 1879-died Boston, MA 1946 · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation de L’entrée de la cour du Chasteau de Maison, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation de L’entrée de la cour du Chasteau de Maison

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saxifraga nervosa Lapeyr.

Saxifraga nervosa Lapeyr.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1903

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 324497 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 11:15 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.