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. 20 shown for “Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:25 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.
Design for Mantelpiece and Elaborate Overmantel, by Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Design for Mantelpiece and Elaborate Overmantel

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Print

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Servant Justified, by Nicolas Lancret

The Servant Justified

Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Print

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils, by Antoine Watteau

Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils

Antoine Watteau · 1710?–?1720

Public domainThe Met
Design for an overdoor, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Design for an overdoor

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with the Arms of Poland/Saxony and Naples/Sicily, by Meissen Manufactory

Cup with the Arms of Poland/Saxony and Naples/Sicily

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1745–47

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, from "Nouveaux Dessins d'Autels"

Design for an Altar, from "Nouveaux Dessins d'Autels"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scaramouche and Isabella, by Bow Porcelain Factory

Scaramouche and Isabella

Bow Porcelain Factory · ca. 1748

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom Wall, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Design for a Bedroom Wall

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1740-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau

Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and Marie Elisabeth de Jullienne (Marie Elisabeth de Séré de Rieux, 1724–1795), by Charles Antoine Coypel

François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and Marie Elisabeth de Jullienne (Marie Elisabeth de Séré de Rieux, 1724–1795)

Charles Antoine Coypel · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Overdoor and Chimney, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Design for an Overdoor and Chimney

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1740–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console (console d'applique)

Console (console d'applique)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–30

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Wall, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Elevation of a Wall

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1745-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Elevation with Wood Paneling, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Design for a Wall Elevation with Wood Paneling

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Designs, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Designs

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheminée du dessein du Sr. Pineau, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Cheminée du dessein du Sr. Pineau

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1700-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lit en niche, from Nouveau desseins de Lambris inventees par le Sr Pineau architecte, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Lit en niche, from Nouveau desseins de Lambris inventees par le Sr Pineau architecte

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · ca. 1727

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 130 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 19:25 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.