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 “Nicolas Poussin” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:45 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.
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Jean Joseph Dubois, French, 1798 - 1841

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Jean Joseph Dubois, French, 1798 - 1841 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Das Grabmal der Cacilie Metella, by Troitzsch, n.d.

Das Grabmal der Cacilie Metella

Troitzsch, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Putti

The Holy Family with Putti

Artist not stated in the record · 1668

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal, by Nicolas Poussin

Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1635–36

Public domainThe Met
Three Musical Graces

Three Musical Graces

Artist not stated in the record · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, by Nicolas Poussin

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627

Public domainThe Met
The Massacre of the Innocents

The Massacre of the Innocents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, by Nicolas Poussin

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

Nicolas Poussin · 1655

Public domainThe Met
L'Empire de Flore

L'Empire de Flore

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, by Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus Sleeping (after Poussin), by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Bacchus Sleeping (after Poussin)

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · 1886–92

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

The Companions of Rinaldo

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna...., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustris; Spinning Girl by Domenico Fetti; Verso: Apollo and Muse by Poussin; Cupid by Corregio; St. Peter and St. John by Poussin; Madonna....

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicolas Poussin, by Pierre Julien

Nicolas Poussin

Pierre Julien · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel Decoration, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Panel Decoration

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder, by Barthélemy Prieur

Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder

Barthélemy Prieur · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Arabesque Motif, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Design for an Arabesque Motif

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Entombment, by Nicolas Poussin

The Entombment

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Ornament Panel

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of Details from Trajan's Column, by Nicolas Poussin

Studies of Details from Trajan's Column

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Panels, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Designs for Two Panels

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

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. 105 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 5612 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 15:45 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.