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. 22 shown for “Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811” — 50 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:20 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 Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1812

List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1812

Artist not stated in the record · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1813

List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1813

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, by Adam August Müller

The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen

Adam August Müller · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Accounting record for the Rouzee family with notes on hires of enslaved persons

Accounting record for the Rouzee family with notes on hires of enslaved persons

Artist not stated in the record · 1810-1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant, by Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696

Public domainThe Met
Account of hires of enslaved persons belonging to Apphia Rouzzee for 1812

Account of hires of enslaved persons belonging to Apphia Rouzzee for 1812

Artist not stated in the record · 1812-1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilate Washing His Hands, by Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Public domainThe Met
List of payments to Apphia Rouzee in account with John Rouzee

List of payments to Apphia Rouzee in account with John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1811-1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis

Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, by Nicolaes Maes

Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael

Nicolaes Maes · 1653

Public domainThe Met
List of bonds for the hire of enslaved persons given to Evan Brown to collect

List of bonds for the hire of enslaved persons given to Evan Brown to collect

Artist not stated in the record · 1794 - 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wholecloth quilt

Wholecloth quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Public domainThe Met
List of bonds due for the hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

List of bonds due for the hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes after old masters, by Wang Hui

Landscapes after old masters

Wang Hui · dated 1674 and 1677

Public domainThe Met
List of bonds taken for hire of enslaved persons owned by Richard Rouzee

List of bonds taken for hire of enslaved persons owned by Richard Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter and payment receipt for hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Letter and payment receipt for hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · January 1, 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook

Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook

Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1813

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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484483 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 2026-09-01 11:20 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.