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 Eugène Chevreul” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 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.
Commemorating the 100th Birthday of M. Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889), French Chemist and Member of the Academy of Sciences, by Louis-Oscar Roty

Commemorating the 100th Birthday of M. Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889), French Chemist and Member of the Academy of Sciences

Louis-Oscar Roty · 1886

Public domainThe Met
× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi, by Michel Eugène Chevreul

De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi

Michel Eugène Chevreul · 1839

Public domainThe Met
× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Des Couleurs et de leurs Applications aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide de Cercles Chromatiques, by Michel Eugène Chevreul

Des Couleurs et de leurs Applications aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide de Cercles Chromatiques

Michel Eugène Chevreul · 1864

Public domainThe Met
× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

× Oncidopsis Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Blue Skies'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906), by Auguste Renoir

Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)

Auguste Renoir · 1877

Public domainThe Met
1c Thomas Jefferson counterfeit postal card

1c Thomas Jefferson counterfeit postal card

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
30c Alexander Hamilton stamped envelope

30c Alexander Hamilton stamped envelope

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Michel Fokine, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Michel Fokine

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Youth of France to M. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Member of the Academy of Sciences, on attaining his Century, by Louis-Oscar Roty

The Youth of France to M. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Member of the Academy of Sciences, on attaining his Century

Louis-Oscar Roty · 1886

Public domainThe Met
Jean Michel Fortier, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Michel Fortier

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Fontainebleau Forest], by Eugène Cuvelier

[Fontainebleau Forest]

Eugène Cuvelier · early 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait, by Louis Michel Eilshemius, 4 Feb 1864 - 29 Dec 1941

Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 4 Feb 1864 - 29 Dec 1941 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
Col. Michel Fortier II, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Col. Michel Fortier II

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Louis Michel Eilshemius, by Joseph Stella, 13 Jun 1877 - 5 Nov 1946

Louis Michel Eilshemius

Joseph Stella, 13 Jun 1877 - 5 Nov 1946 · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabs Crossing a Ford, by Eugène Fromentin

Arabs Crossing a Ford

Eugène Fromentin · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Col. Michel Fortier II, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Col. Michel Fortier II

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847), by Eugène Delacroix

Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847)

Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Michel Angelique Brouard, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Michel Angelique Brouard

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 15324 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 17:49 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.