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. 21 shown for “Nicolas Eustache Maurin” — 49 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:33 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.
George Washington, First President of the United States, by Nicolas Eustache Maurin

George Washington, First President of the United States

Nicolas Eustache Maurin · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Companions of Rinaldo, by Nicolas Poussin

The Companions of Rinaldo

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Saint Gervasius, by Eustache Le Sueur

Study for Saint Gervasius

Eustache Le Sueur · ca. 1652

Public domainThe Met
Marquis de Lafayette, by Nicolas Eustache Maurin, 1799 - 1850

Marquis de Lafayette

Nicolas Eustache Maurin, 1799 - 1850 · c. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
William Cobbett, by Nicolas Eustache Maurin, 1799 - 1850

William Cobbett

Nicolas Eustache Maurin, 1799 - 1850 · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
James Madison

James Madison

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Condemned Soldiers from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Condemned Soldiers from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
George Washington

George Washington

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, by Charles Le Brun

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Charles Le Brun · 1647

Public domainThe Met
George Washington

George Washington

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statues of the Future, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 29, 1868, by Honoré Daumier

Statues of the Future, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 29, 1868

Honoré Daumier · April 29, 1868

Public domainThe Met
James Madison

James Madison

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

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
John Adams

John Adams

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Monroe

James Monroe

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Monroe

James Monroe

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1828

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5731 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 18:33 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.