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 “Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801” — 44 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:00 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.
Le Général Washington, by Noël Le Mire

Le Général Washington

Noël Le Mire · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Marquis De Lafayette, by Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801

Marquis De Lafayette

Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themire Crowned by Graces, by Sèvres Manufactory

Themire Crowned by Graces

Sèvres Manufactory · 1777

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801

George Washington

Noël Le Mire, 1724 - 1801 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757, by Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757

Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1762

Public domainThe Met
General Washington, by Unidentified Artist

General Washington

Unidentified Artist · after 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples, by Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples

Charles François Grenier de Lacroix · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Hymen and Putto, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Hymen and Putto

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child as Gardener, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Child as Gardener

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Dead Children Mourned by a Putto, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Two Dead Children Mourned by a Putto

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Globe, Cupid, and Children, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

A Globe, Cupid, and Children

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and a Girl Upon Boulder, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Cupid and a Girl Upon Boulder

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Child Watering a Plant, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Child Watering a Plant

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid as a Monk Holding a Caduceus, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Cupid as a Monk Holding a Caduceus

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner", by Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Illustration for "Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner"

Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788 · ca. 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Winged Genius Painting a Canvas, by Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778

A Winged Genius Painting a Canvas

Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778 · 1753

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. 35457 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 16:00 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.