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 “Peep-Show Print, View of Versailles from the Chateau” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:22 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.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Peep-Show Print, View of Versailles from the Chateau

Peep-Show Print, View of Versailles from the Chateau

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Versailles, by Auguste Renoir

Versailles

Auguste Renoir · 1900–1905

Public domainThe Met
Peep-Show Print, View of the Bassin des Suisses, Versailles, by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

Peep-Show Print, View of the Bassin des Suisses, Versailles

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Vüe Perspective du Chateau Royal de Tolede, et de la Grande Place Qui Est Au Devant

Peep-show, Vüe Perspective du Chateau Royal de Tolede, et de la Grande Place Qui Est Au Devant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Vue de la Ville de Richelieu en Poitou construitte par le Grand Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, au Bout des Parteres de Sougid et Superbe Chateau de Richelieu de la Conduitte, No. 147

Peep-show, Vue de la Ville de Richelieu en Poitou construitte par le Grand Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, au Bout des Parteres de Sougid et Superbe Chateau de Richelieu de la Conduitte, No. 147

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
LE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Plan of the Gardens at Versailles

Plan of the Gardens at Versailles

Artist not stated in the record · 1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Veüe perspective de la décoration élevée sur la terrasse du Château de Versailles pour l’illumination et le feu d’artifice qui a été tiré à l’occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France avec Don Philippe Second Jnfant d’Espagne le XXVI Aoust M.DCC. XXXIX., by Pierre-Josse Joseph Perrot, French, 1678 – 1750

Veüe perspective de la décoration élevée sur la terrasse du Château de Versailles pour l’illumination et le feu d’artifice qui a été tiré à l’occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France avec Don Philippe Second Jnfant d’Espagne le XXVI Aoust M.DCC. XXXIX.

Pierre-Josse Joseph Perrot, French, 1678 – 1750 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Vue Generale de la Ville d'Amsterdan du Côté de Tye (A General View of the City of Amsterdam from the Tye)

Peep-show, Vue Generale de la Ville d'Amsterdan du Côté de Tye (A General View of the City of Amsterdam from the Tye)

Artist not stated in the record · 1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
LE CHATEAU DE CLAGNY proche de Versailles, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHATEAU DE CLAGNY proche de Versailles

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Prospectus Castelli Versaliensis, at latus hortense ex adverso Sacelli (View of the Palace of Versailles, from the Gardens opposite the Chapel), by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

Prospectus Castelli Versaliensis, at latus hortense ex adverso Sacelli (View of the Palace of Versailles, from the Gardens opposite the Chapel)

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine), by Jacques Gondouin

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Jacques Gondouin · 1779

Public domainThe Met
LE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES du côté du Jardin, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES du côté du Jardin

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
La Veue des Cascades de Versailles et d’une partie du Château, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

La Veue des Cascades de Versailles et d’une partie du Château

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1670–1703

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. 139 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4270 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 2026-09-06 00:22 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.