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 “Percival De Luce” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
Incense, by Percival De Luce

Incense

Percival De Luce · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, by Gustave Moreau

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Gustave Moreau · ca. 1876

Public domainThe Met
Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lute Player, by Valentin de Boulogne

Lute Player

Valentin de Boulogne · ca. 1625–26

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus laxus Luces

Axonopus laxus Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luce Myrès (Front View), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Luce Myrès (Front View)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1972

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
Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Magdalen, by Georges de La Tour

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1952 to 26 Sep 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria fragilis (Steud.) Luces

Digitaria fragilis (Steud.) Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, by Gilbert Stuart

Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles

Gilbert Stuart · 1798

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis meridensis Luces

Agrostis meridensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/8/80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Helleria fragilis Luces

Helleria fragilis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce, by Matteo Florimi

Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce

Matteo Florimi · 1591

Public domainThe Met
Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Mesosetum chaseae Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint James the Greater, by Gil de Siloe

Saint James the Greater

Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

Public domainThe Met
Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Poa mucuchachensis Luces

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1972

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. 137 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 614897 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.