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 “Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835” — 50 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:59 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.
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835

Cup and Saucer

Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Sèvres Manufactory

Tray

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Plate (One of Three), by Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835

Plate (One of Three)

Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard, by baron Antoine Jean Gros

François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard

baron Antoine Jean Gros · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Grillage pose a la Chapelle de Monseigr le Cardinal de Lorraine fondateur de l’Insigne Eglise Primatiale de Lorraine; et un pareil à celle de Mr de Bouzey Grand Doyen de la même Eglise Primatiale de Nancy., by Claude Francois Nicole, French, ca. 1700 – ca. 1783

Grillage pose a la Chapelle de Monseigr le Cardinal de Lorraine fondateur de l’Insigne Eglise Primatiale de Lorraine; et un pareil à celle de Mr de Bouzey Grand Doyen de la même Eglise Primatiale de Nancy.

Claude Francois Nicole, French, ca. 1700 – ca. 1783 · 1759

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
Scrapbook of early aeronautica / collected by William Upcott

Scrapbook of early aeronautica / collected by William Upcott

Artist not stated in the record · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Concord Minute Man of 1775, by Daniel Chester French, born Exeter, NH 1850-died Stockbridge, MA 1931

Concord Minute Man of 1775

Daniel Chester French, born Exeter, NH 1850-died Stockbridge, MA 1931 · 1889, cast 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Rampe et pallier de lintendance, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Rampe et pallier de lintendance

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partial coffee service (Déjeuner “Culture et Récolte du cacao”), by Sèvres Manufactory

Partial coffee service (Déjeuner “Culture et Récolte du cacao”)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Rampe de l’Escalier du Chateau Royal de Champdebeu, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Rampe de l’Escalier du Chateau Royal de Champdebeu

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1759–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les monuments d'Égypte, by Oberkampf Manufactory

Les monuments d'Égypte

Oberkampf Manufactory · ca. 1808

Public domainThe Met
Rampe et pallier de lintendance, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Rampe et pallier de lintendance

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1759–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Shepherdess of the Alps, by Evelina Hull

The Shepherdess of the Alps

Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Nast, by John White Alexander, 7 Oct 1856 - 31 May 1915

Thomas Nast

John White Alexander, 7 Oct 1856 - 31 May 1915 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Suittes de Décorations, de six feuilles, a l’usage des Théâtre, Panneaux, Carosses, &c, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Suittes de Décorations, de six feuilles, a l’usage des Théâtre, Panneaux, Carosses, &c

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contours de Plats, Caisses, Boëttes de chasse, Casseroles &c., by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Contours de Plats, Caisses, Boëttes de chasse, Casseroles &c.

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seconds Voyageurs Aeriens ou Experience de Mm. Charles et Robert

Seconds Voyageurs Aeriens ou Experience de Mm. Charles et Robert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

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. 1049034 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:59 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.