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. 13 shown for “Nicolas Pigné” — 41 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:32 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.
The Virgin holding a cloth above the sleeping Christ child, with musical angels and the infant Saint John the Baptist, by Nicolas Pigné

The Virgin holding a cloth above the sleeping Christ child, with musical angels and the infant Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Pigné · ca. 1729

Public domainThe Met
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
Nicolas Marchand, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Nicolas Marchand

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedro Luis Nicolas de Rivery Fouet, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Pedro Luis Nicolas de Rivery Fouet

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicolas Robelot, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Nicolas Robelot

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia macroura (Kunth) Hitchc.

Muhlenbergia macroura (Kunth) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia vaginata Swallen

Muhlenbergia vaginata Swallen

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia peruviana (P. Beauv.) Steud.

Muhlenbergia peruviana (P. Beauv.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia purpusii Mez

Muhlenbergia purpusii Mez

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1989

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5594 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 05:32 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.