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 “Le Salle de Spectacle, Bordeaux” — 50 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:22 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.
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Le Salle de Spectacle, Bordeaux

Le Salle de Spectacle, Bordeaux

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV., by Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754

Décoration de la salle de spectacle, construit dans le manège couvert de la grande écurie à Versailles, pour la représentation de la Princesse de Navarre Comédie Ballet, donnée à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, le XXIII février M.DCCLV.

Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olivier Journu (1724–1783), by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

Olivier Journu (1724–1783)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Decoration de la Salle de Spectacle

Decoration de la Salle de Spectacle

Artist not stated in the record · 1745

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
Design for a Foyer Vault in the Salle de Spectacle at the Palais des Tuileries, plate 56, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Design for a Foyer Vault in the Salle de Spectacle at the Palais des Tuileries, plate 56, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spanish Entertainment from the 'Bulls of Bordeaux', by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Spanish Entertainment from the 'Bulls of Bordeaux'

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Plan des Salles Publiques, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Plan des Salles Publiques

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 23 from "Los Caprichos": These specks of dust (Aquellos polbos), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 23 from "Los Caprichos": These specks of dust (Aquellos polbos)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Juncus heterophyllus Dufour

Juncus heterophyllus Dufour

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer in the Mosque, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque

Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus longus L.

Cyperus longus L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study"), by Gustave Courbet

A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study")

Gustave Courbet · probably 1862

Public domainThe Met
Orobanche rapum Wallr.

Orobanche rapum Wallr.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1870 to 8 Aug 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pygmalion and Galatea, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Salvinia natans (L.) All.

Salvinia natans (L.) All.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan du Rez de Chaussée de la Salle de Lopéra de S.A.S.E. de Baviere, Batie dans le fossé qui Sépare la Résidence de L’arcenal, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Plan du Rez de Chaussée de la Salle de Lopéra de S.A.S.E. de Baviere, Batie dans le fossé qui Sépare la Résidence de L’arcenal

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus eragrostis Lam.

Cyperus eragrostis Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
VUË PERSPECTIVE DE L'INTERIEURE D'UNE DES SALLES DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS LE GRAND, VUE DE L'ENTRÉE DU SALLON., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

VUË PERSPECTIVE DE L'INTERIEURE D'UNE DES SALLES DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS LE GRAND, VUE DE L'ENTRÉE DU SALLON.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 632665 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 13:22 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.