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. 14 shown for “Pierre Dulin” — 42 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:54 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.
Le sacre de Louis XV, roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII, by Pierre Dulin

Le sacre de Louis XV, roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII

Pierre Dulin · 1723

Public domainThe Met
Hybrid Tea Rose

Hybrid Tea Rose

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Jean Audran

The Annunciation

Jean Audran · 1700–56

Public domainThe Met
Dutchman's Pipe

Dutchman's Pipe

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutchman's Pipe

Dutchman's Pipe

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13268 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 2026-08-26 17:54 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.