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 Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after” — 28 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
The Baker's Cart, by Jean Michelin

The Baker's Cart

Jean Michelin · 1656

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres, Vols. I-IV, by Jean Le Pautre

Oeuvres, Vols. I-IV

Jean Le Pautre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Title Page

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · ca. 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case watch with alarm, by Adam Roumeau

Pair-case watch with alarm

Adam Roumeau · probably ca. 1695

Public domainThe Met
Etuit de Repetition, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Etuit de Repetition

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and a Fob, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and a Fob

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Fobs, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Fobs

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Bands, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Bands

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Fobs, and a Heraldic Device, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Fobs, and a Heraldic Device

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 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. 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. 24 matched · 24 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 2026-08-27 10:43 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.