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. 16 shown for “Nina, ou la folle d'Amour” — 44 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:28 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.
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Nina, ou la folle d'Amour

Nina, ou la folle d'Amour

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Nina, ou la folle par amour

Nina, ou la folle par amour

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
LE BASSIN DE L’ISLE D’AMOUR, où L’ISLE ROYALE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE BASSIN DE L’ISLE D’AMOUR, où L’ISLE ROYALE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1681–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Enicostema verticillatum (L.) Engl.

Enicostema verticillatum (L.) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus gallicus Pers.

Dianthus gallicus Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sporobolus junceus (P. Beauv.) Kunth

Sporobolus junceus (P. Beauv.) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.

Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.

Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linaria thymifolia (Vahl) DC.

Linaria thymifolia (Vahl) DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine", by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Plate from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine"

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · ca. 1640–1682

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine", by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Plate from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine"

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · ca. 1640–1682

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine", by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Title Page from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins, à la romaine"

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · ca. 1640–1682

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 324851 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-04 20:28 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.