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. 18 shown for “Nicolas Bazin” — 46 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:46 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.
St. Francis of Assisi, by Nicolas Bazin

St. Francis of Assisi

Nicolas Bazin

Public domainThe Met
Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L.

Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Ignatius of Loyola, by Nicolas Bazin

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Nicolas Bazin · 1703

Public domainThe Met
Rubus candicans Weihe ex Rchb.

Rubus candicans Weihe ex Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1913 to 6 Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Juncus atratus Krock.

Juncus atratus Krock.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Aira caryophyllea L.

Aira caryophyllea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1913 to 6 Jun 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Nude Man, by Pierre Narcisse Guérin

Study of a Nude Man

Pierre Narcisse Guérin · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Rubus candicans Weihe ex Rchb.

Rubus candicans Weihe ex Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1913 to 6 Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon

[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]

Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla subacaulis L.

Potentilla subacaulis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galatella cana (Waldst. & Kit.) Nees

Galatella cana (Waldst. & Kit.) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1913 to 6 Sep 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia sp.

Muhlenbergia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia rigida (Kunth) Kunth

Muhlenbergia rigida (Kunth) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, by Unidentified Artist

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Unidentified Artist · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Ornament, Gueridons, Braziers, and Ceiling Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Album of Ornament, Gueridons, Braziers, and Ceiling Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, by Unidentified Artist

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Unidentified Artist · c. 1921

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5610 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-26 15:46 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.