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 “Louis René Boquet” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:41 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.
Mademoiselle Marie-Jeanne Fesch Chevallier, by Louis René Boquet

Mademoiselle Marie-Jeanne Fesch Chevallier

Louis René Boquet

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Costume Designs for the Ballet or Opera, by Louis René Boquet

Two Costume Designs for the Ballet or Opera

Louis René Boquet · ca. 1770–90

Public domainThe Met
René Louis Trudeau, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

René Louis Trudeau

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two dancers, by Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

Two dancers

Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1760–63

Public domainThe Met
Columnea mortonii Raymond

Columnea mortonii Raymond

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Journal de distribution des Fourrages pour l'Ecurie de S. A.sse S.me E.me M.gr le Cardinal de Rohan, precede du tariff des prix des ouvrages relatives à cette partie, extrata des marches faits avec les Ouvriers et Fournisseurs. ***1er Janvier 1782.

Journal de distribution des Fourrages pour l'Ecurie de S. A.sse S.me E.me M.gr le Cardinal de Rohan, precede du tariff des prix des ouvrages relatives à cette partie, extrata des marches faits avec les Ouvriers et Fournisseurs. ***1er Janvier 1782.

Artist not stated in the record · 1782–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Allegorial Frontispiece, by René-Michel Slodtz, French, 1705–1764

Allegorial Frontispiece

René-Michel Slodtz, French, 1705–1764 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Cleyera theaeoides (Sw.) Choisy

Cleyera theaeoides (Sw.) Choisy

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Album of prints: Public Celebrations Given in Paris on the Occasions of the First and Second Marriages of Monseigneur le Dauphin in 1745 and 1747, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Album of prints: Public Celebrations Given in Paris on the Occasions of the First and Second Marriages of Monseigneur le Dauphin in 1745 and 1747

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias, by Goya

Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias

Goya · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Acalypha arvensis Poepp.

Acalypha arvensis Poepp.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1966 to 13 Dec 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Punch bowl (jatte à punch) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Punch bowl (jatte à punch) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1771–72

Public domainThe Met
Cleyera theaeoides (Sw.) Choisy

Cleyera theaeoides (Sw.) Choisy

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Abutilon divaricatum Turcz.

Abutilon divaricatum Turcz.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes, by Plutarch

Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes

Plutarch · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus stipulatus (Raf.) G.L. Webster

Phyllanthus stipulatus (Raf.) G.L. Webster

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of René Duguay-Trouin, Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King, by François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller

Portrait of René Duguay-Trouin, Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King

François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller · 1765–1807

Public domainThe Met
Monochaetum trichophyllum Almeda

Monochaetum trichophyllum Almeda

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1972

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. 233 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 46846 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-06 18:41 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.