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 “Le château de Cartes” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:45 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.
Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Public domainThe Met
Le château de Cartes

Le château de Cartes

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
LE JEU DE LA GOBILLE / LE CHÂTEAU DE CARTES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE JEU DE LA GOBILLE / LE CHÂTEAU DE CARTES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Carex muricata L.

Carex muricata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Le Château de la Roche prés de Tonnerre en Bourgogne (Upper Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Le Château de la Roche prés de Tonnerre en Bourgogne (Upper Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leda and the Swan, by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Leda and the Swan

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
LE CHÂTEAU DE MARLY, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHÂTEAU DE MARLY

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1676–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
LE CHÂTEAU DE MARLY du côté des Jardins, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHÂTEAU DE MARLY du côté des Jardins

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1676–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Plan et Elévation du Château de St. Assise, entre Corbeille et Melun sur le bord de la Seine, Restaurer sur les dessins de Monsieur Sobre Architect, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan et Elévation du Château de St. Assise, entre Corbeille et Melun sur le bord de la Seine, Restaurer sur les dessins de Monsieur Sobre Architect

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
LE CHATEAU DE LERY, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHATEAU DE LERY

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
LE CHÂTEAU DE LOUVOIS a 4 lieües de Reims, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHÂTEAU DE LOUVOIS a 4 lieües de Reims

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soap Bubbles, by Jean Siméon Chardin

Soap Bubbles

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34

Public domainThe Met
Le Château de Montmirel en Champagne, du côté de l’entrée (Upper Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Le Château de Montmirel en Champagne, du côté de l’entrée (Upper Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Le Château de Maisons du côté du Jardin, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Le Château de Maisons du côté du Jardin

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1660–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
LE CHATEAU DE TRIANON, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHATEAU DE TRIANON

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1687–1703

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. 733 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 630969 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 2026-09-04 12:45 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.