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 “Pierre Boitard” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 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.
Wolf Hunt, by Louis Pierre Boitard

Wolf Hunt

Louis Pierre Boitard · 1747–63

Public domainThe Met
SERVANTE DE CABARET, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

SERVANTE DE CABARET

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maria Stuart Regina Scotiae, by Louis Pierre Boitard

Maria Stuart Regina Scotiae

Louis Pierre Boitard · 1750

Public domainThe Met
LA CHASSE AUX LAPPINS, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LA CHASSE AUX LAPPINS

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité de la composition de l'ornement des jardins, avec 96 planches representant des plans de jardins, by Pierre Boitard

Traité de la composition de l'ornement des jardins, avec 96 planches representant des plans de jardins

Pierre Boitard · 1825

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAU LIVRE DE SINGES, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

NOUVEAU LIVRE DE SINGES

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taste a la Mode in the Year 1753, by Louis Pierre Boitard

Taste a la Mode in the Year 1753

Louis Pierre Boitard · 1753

Public domainThe Met
Dalbergia bariensis Pierre

Dalbergia bariensis Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · 1865 to 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphagnum squarrosum Hampe

Sphagnum squarrosum Hampe

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs, by Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850

Album of Frame and Cartouche Designs

Franz Hegi, Swiss, 1774 – 1850 · 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bocagea philastreana Pierre

Bocagea philastreana Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1867

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. 13256 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-01 09:54 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.