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 François Drais” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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.
Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes

Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Pierre Francois DuBourg, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Pierre Francois DuBourg

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play

Pierre François Drais · 1770–71

Public domainThe Met
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, by George Peter Alexander Healy, born Boston, MA 1813-died Chicago, IL 1894

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

George Peter Alexander Healy, born Boston, MA 1813-died Chicago, IL 1894 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Pierre de Vergès, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Pierre de Vergès

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leda and the Swan, by Michel Anguier

Leda and the Swan

Michel Anguier · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Second Series of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Album of Prints: Second Series of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks: Autumn, by Jean-François Millet

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de Rome... En Latin et en François, by Pierre le Petit

Office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de Rome... En Latin et en François

Pierre le Petit · 1675

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Bound print

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

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. 968 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 20540 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 01:14 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.