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 “Michel Aubert” — 57 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:06 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.
Jacob Prostrates Himself before Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat, by Michel Aubert

Jacob Prostrates Himself before Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat

Michel Aubert · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Habillements de ceux du SOUTCHOVENE à la Chine, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Habillements de ceux du SOUTCHOVENE à la Chine

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat, by Michel Aubert

Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat

Michel Aubert · 1739

Public domainThe Met
VIOSSEU ou Musicien Chinois, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

VIOSSEU ou Musicien Chinois

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Philippe, by Michel Aubert

Saint Philippe

Michel Aubert · 1726

Public domainThe Met
La Déesse THVO CHVU dans l'Isle d'Hainane, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

La Déesse THVO CHVU dans l'Isle d'Hainane

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul, by Michel Aubert

Saint Paul

Michel Aubert · 1726

Public domainThe Met
Idole de la Déesse KI MÂO SÁO dans le Royaume de Mang au pays des Laos, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Idole de la Déesse KI MÂO SÁO dans le Royaume de Mang au pays des Laos

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob and Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat, by Michel Aubert

Jacob and Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat

Michel Aubert · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Habillements des habitants de la Province de HOU KOUAN à la Chine, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Habillements des habitants de la Province de HOU KOUAN à la Chine

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat, by Michel Aubert

Laban Searching for his Gods, after Etienne Jeaurat

Michel Aubert · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Fourth Book of Vases and Book of Arabesques by Aubert Parent, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Album of Prints: Fourth Book of Vases and Book of Arabesques by Aubert Parent

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1784-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispice pour le "Tombeau de Charles Sackville, comte de Dorset" (Frontispiece for the "Tomb of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset", from Tombeaux des Princes, des Grands Capitaines et autres Hommes illustres (Tombs of Princes, Great Captains, and other Illustrious Men), by Michel Aubert

Frontispice pour le "Tombeau de Charles Sackville, comte de Dorset" (Frontispiece for the "Tomb of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset", from Tombeaux des Princes, des Grands Capitaines et autres Hommes illustres (Tombs of Princes, Great Captains, and other Illustrious Men)

Michel Aubert · ca. 1736

Public domainThe Met
Bulimina orphanensis Berggren & Aubert, 1976

Bulimina orphanensis Berggren & Aubert, 1976

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Laotian Goddess Ki Mao Sao and Worshippers, by Bow Porcelain Factory

The Laotian Goddess Ki Mao Sao and Worshippers

Bow Porcelain Factory · ca. 1750–52

Public domainThe Met
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Parrot of Mr. Guizot, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 3, 1851, by Honoré Daumier

The Parrot of Mr. Guizot, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 3, 1851

Honoré Daumier · July 3, 1851

Public domainThe Met
Cahier de meubles contenant six lits de différents formes et dans le dernier goût, composés et dessinés par Aubert en 1789, by Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835

Cahier de meubles contenant six lits de différents formes et dans le dernier goût, composés et dessinés par Aubert en 1789

Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia racemosa (Michx.) Britton et al.

Muhlenbergia racemosa (Michx.) Britton et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia frondosa (Poir.) Fernald

Muhlenbergia frondosa (Poir.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with An Allegory of Geography, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with An Allegory of Geography

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1777–78

Public domainThe Met
Sorex coronatus

Sorex coronatus

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1977

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 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. 6061 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 01:06 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.