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. 13 shown for “Logement et Nourriture” — 49 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:25 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 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
Logement et Nourriture

Logement et Nourriture

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Holcus lanatus L.

Holcus lanatus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votre maison me fait l'effet de devoir..., from "Locataires et Propriétaires", by Honoré Daumier

Votre maison me fait l'effet de devoir..., from "Locataires et Propriétaires"

Honoré Daumier · October 14, 1836

Public domainThe Met
Plan du premier Etage du Kiosque, ou Bâtiment à la Turque, by Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763

Plan du premier Etage du Kiosque, ou Bâtiment à la Turque

Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Family of the Lithographautoccini, by Hippolyte Bellangé

The Family of the Lithographautoccini

Hippolyte Bellangé · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples., by Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724

Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples.

Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724 · 1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Grande révolte des rats de montfaucon, from Les Hippophages, published in Le Charivari, October 21, 1856, by Honoré Daumier

Grande révolte des rats de montfaucon, from Les Hippophages, published in Le Charivari, October 21, 1856

Honoré Daumier · October 21, 1856

Public domainThe Met
Les Sous-Sols, from Croqius Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, December 2, 1856, by Honoré Daumier

Les Sous-Sols, from Croqius Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, December 2, 1856

Honoré Daumier · December 2, 1856

Public domainThe Met
Naissance de Bacchus (Birth of Bacchus), by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Naissance de Bacchus (Birth of Bacchus)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Newspapers at the Grocers (Les journaux chez l'épicier) from La Caricature, October 23, 1842, by Honoré Daumier

Newspapers at the Grocers (Les journaux chez l'épicier) from La Caricature, October 23, 1842

Honoré Daumier · 1842

Public domainThe Met
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 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. 105191 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 2026-09-05 09:25 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.