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. 14 shown for “Paul Legrand” — 52 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:59 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 Jardin des Plantes, Descriptions et Moeurs des Mammiferes, by François Boitard

Le Jardin des Plantes, Descriptions et Moeurs des Mammiferes

François Boitard · 1842

Public domainThe Met
Péhriska-Rúhpa (Two Ravens), by Paul Legrand

Péhriska-Rúhpa (Two Ravens)

Paul Legrand · c. 1840-43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand

Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Feb 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand

Myrcia inaequiloba (DC.) D. Legrand

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1831–34

Public domainThe Met
The Woman in the Waves, by Gustave Courbet

The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
The Smokers, by Adriaen Brouwer

The Smokers

Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Public domainThe Met
Embroidery; The Artist's Mother, by Georges Seurat

Embroidery; The Artist's Mother

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman (La Servante), by Auguste Renoir

Young Woman (La Servante)

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 133583 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 18:59 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.