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. 23 shown for “Les Fruits de L'Automne” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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 Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, by Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627

Public domainThe Met
Les Fruits de L'Automne

Les Fruits de L'Automne

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735-1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau (le Douanier)

The Repast of the Lion

Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907

Public domainThe Met
Les Fruits de l'Automne, from "Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux Fantaises Utiles à Divers Usages"

Les Fruits de l'Automne, from "Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux Fantaises Utiles à Divers Usages"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Silver Tureen, by Jean Siméon Chardin

The Silver Tureen

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
L’Automne, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

L’Automne

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
L’AUTOMNE, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

L’AUTOMNE

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1749–61

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
L’Automne, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

L’Automne

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
L'Automne, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'Automne

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar to the Sun Warrior, by Mexico Nahua artist(s)

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
PLAFOND DE PEINTURE; Plafond du même cabinet, 4th Plate, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

PLAFOND DE PEINTURE; Plafond du même cabinet, 4th Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
The Kiss Accepted

The Kiss Accepted

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Peaches and Grapes, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Auguste Renoir · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Inga retinocarpa Poncy

Inga retinocarpa Poncy

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, by Jean-François Millet

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish of Apples, by Paul Cézanne

Dish of Apples

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1876–77

Public domainThe Met
The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault, by Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598

The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault

Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598 · 1591

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. 242 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. 634194 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.