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 “Larivière, French, active 19th c.” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:46 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 Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea urn, by P. B., Paris

Tea urn

P. B., Paris · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul, by Claus de Werve

Saint Paul

Claus de Werve · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · August 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), by Auguste Renoir

Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)

Auguste Renoir · 1914

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes, by Donato de' Bardi

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes

Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

August Godchaux & Cie, French, active 19th c. · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

Gilguin & Dupain, French, active 19th c. · September 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles, by A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Journal des demoiselles

A. Pauquet, French, active 19th c. · February 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate no. 319 from L'Iris, Moniteur des Modes, by Imprimerie Mariton, French, active mid-19th c.

Fashion Plate no. 319 from L'Iris, Moniteur des Modes

Imprimerie Mariton, French, active mid-19th c. · 1861

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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1075916 matched · 40 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 2026-08-31 21:46 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.