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 Cardin, French, founded 1950” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:29 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 Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Necktie worn by Ira Tucker, by Pierre Cardin, French, founded 1950

Necktie worn by Ira Tucker

Pierre Cardin, French, founded 1950 · after 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Red and cream loafers designed by Pierre Cardin and worn by Fats Domino, by Pierre Cardin, French, founded 1950

Red and cream loafers designed by Pierre Cardin and worn by Fats Domino

Pierre Cardin, French, founded 1950 · late 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758), by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1650-1723)

Portrait of Guillaume Cardinal Dubois (1650-1723)

Artist not stated in the record · 1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cardinal Jaques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704)

Portrait of Cardinal Jaques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704)

Artist not stated in the record · 1723

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)

Portrait of Juan Pablo Oliva (1600-1681)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (before 1227)

Public domainThe Met
LA THÉOLOGIE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA THÉOLOGIE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · before 1227

Public domainThe Met
LA THÉOLOGIE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA THÉOLOGIE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Bronzes and Antique Fragments Found at Herculaneum

Bronzes and Antique Fragments Found at Herculaneum

Artist not stated in the record · 1748–1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
ÉTABLISSEMENT DE L’ÉCOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE, by Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780

ÉTABLISSEMENT DE L’ÉCOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE

Saint-Aubin Gabriel de, French, 1724 – 1780 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, by Nicolas Poussin

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument of James III and Henry Cardinal York

Sepulchral Monument of James III and Henry Cardinal York

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Dracontomelon duperreanum Pierre

Dracontomelon duperreanum Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Ziziphus cambodiana Pierre

Ziziphus cambodiana Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1952

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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 594693 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-10 18:29 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.