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. 24 shown for “La Retour de la Pêche” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:28 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.
After the Hunt, by Gustave Courbet

After the Hunt

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

Public domainThe Met
La Retour de la Pêche

La Retour de la Pêche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
La Retour de la Chasse

La Retour de la Chasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Retour de la Pêche, by Joseph Vernet

Retour de la Pêche

Joseph Vernet · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
La Retour de la Chasse

La Retour de la Chasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Music, by Laurent de La Hyre

Allegory of Music

Laurent de La Hyre · 1649

Public domainThe Met
Voyage de Nuit (La Pêche au Filet), by Charles Francois Daubigny, 1817-1878

Voyage de Nuit (La Pêche au Filet)

Charles Francois Daubigny, 1817-1878 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
RÉPRÉSENTATION DES JOUTES, EXERCICES DE LA BAGUE, DE L’OYE, AUTRES JEUX, ET PÊCHE CONSIDÉRABLE, by Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751

RÉPRÉSENTATION DES JOUTES, EXERCICES DE LA BAGUE, DE L’OYE, AUTRES JEUX, ET PÊCHE CONSIDÉRABLE

Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Villagois à la Pêche (The Villages Fishing), by René Gaillard

Les Villagois à la Pêche (The Villages Fishing)

René Gaillard · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust-Length Study of a Man, by François-Auguste Biard

Bust-Length Study of a Man

François-Auguste Biard · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Peace of Amiens. 1802., by Jean-Pierre Droz

The Peace of Amiens. 1802.

Jean-Pierre Droz · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H. Rob.

Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Letellier on His Deathbed, by Théodore Géricault

General Letellier on His Deathbed

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Public domainThe Met
Suriana sp.

Suriana sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The River, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The River

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

Public domainThe Met
Cenchrus echinatus L.

Cenchrus echinatus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return of the Parliament (Le Retour du Parlement), by Jean Bernard Restout

The Return of the Parliament (Le Retour du Parlement)

Jean Bernard Restout · ca. 1774

Public domainThe Met
Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze

Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1974

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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 773864 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 11:28 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.