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 “Pierre Alexandre Aveline” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:01 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.
Fourth Book of Groups of Children, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Fourth Book of Groups of Children

Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Public domainThe Met
Le Buveur (the Drinker)

Le Buveur (the Drinker)

Artist not stated in the record · 1770s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fire, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

The Fire

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trois Amours soutenant une draperie (Three Loves Holding a Drapery), from Premier Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (First Book of Groups of Children), by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Trois Amours soutenant une draperie (Three Loves Holding a Drapery), from Premier Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (First Book of Groups of Children)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trois Amours dont un tient une flèche (Three Loves, one of which holds an arrow), from Premiere Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (First Book of Groups of Children), by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Trois Amours dont un tient une flèche (Three Loves, one of which holds an arrow), from Premiere Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (First Book of Groups of Children)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Public domainThe Met
LA BALANÇOIRE, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

LA BALANÇOIRE

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Naiades, Tritons and the Bath of Priap, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Naiades, Tritons and the Bath of Priap

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1736

Public domainThe Met
L'Enseigne de Gersaint

L'Enseigne de Gersaint

Artist not stated in the record · 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Sleeping Children With Three Sheep, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Two Sleeping Children With Three Sheep

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1758–63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, from "New Book of Children", by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Title Page, from "New Book of Children"

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1720–60

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Castle of Cards, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

The Castle of Cards

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie with Figure in a Landscape, by Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772

Chinoiserie with Figure in a Landscape

Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · 1729-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Loves, one of which holds a crown, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Two Loves, one of which holds a crown

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1727–60

Public domainThe Met
Two Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Two Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Loves with Musical Instruments, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Three Loves with Musical Instruments

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1727–60

Public domainThe Met
Two Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Two Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1758–63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Frontispiece

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1727–60

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1758–63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Loves Next to a Cartouche, by Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Three Loves Next to a Cartouche

Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1727–60

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–49

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. 365 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 13837 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 2026-08-28 14:01 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.