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. 23 shown for “Pierre Claude Mothé” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:56 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.
Étui, by Pierre Claude Mothé

Étui

Pierre Claude Mothé · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

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
Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature, by G. F. R. Molé

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Public domainThe Met
Coupes du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Coupes du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1639

Public domainThe Met
Détail du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détail du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunrise, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Sunrise

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47

Public domainThe Met
Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of La Crescenza, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

View of La Crescenza

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50

Public domainThe Met
Détail du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détail du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg, by Claude Guy Hallé

The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg

Claude Guy Hallé · ca. 1681

Public domainThe Met
Table de Jeu, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Table de Jeu

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
François de La Mothe Le Vayer, by Claude Mellan

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

Claude Mellan · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Coupes du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Coupes du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre Gassendi, by Claude Mellan

Pierre Gassendi

Claude Mellan · ca. 1637 or 1638

Public domainThe Met
Micropholis guyanensis (A. DC.) Pierre subsp. guyanensis

Micropholis guyanensis (A. DC.) Pierre subsp. guyanensis

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1979 to 27 Apr 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table de Jeu, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Table de Jeu

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

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. 519 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29577 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-26 17:56 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.