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 Jacques Cazes” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:57 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 Bath of Psyche, by Pierre Jacques Cazes

The Bath of Psyche

Pierre Jacques Cazes · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) Moore ex Woynar

Polystichum setiferum (Forssk.) Moore ex Woynar

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid Sharpening His Arrows, by Pierre Charles Lévesque

Cupid Sharpening His Arrows

Pierre Charles Lévesque · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Alyxia leucogyne Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Alyxia leucogyne Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2021

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by Louis Desplaces

Winter

Louis Desplaces · early to mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Decorative Panels, Trophies, and Monogram Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Album of Decorative Panels, Trophies, and Monogram Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1773–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Flambeau, by Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784

Flambeau

Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Terrine, by Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784

Terrine

Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Surtout, by Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784

Surtout

Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlesticks, by Jacques-Pierre Marteau

Pair of candlesticks

Jacques-Pierre Marteau · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Flambeau, by Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784

Flambeau

Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707 – 1784 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Flask of Jacques de Silly (1513–1571)

Powder Flask of Jacques de Silly (1513–1571)

Artist not stated in the record · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Livre d'Ornemens by Pierre Germain, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Album of Prints: Livre d'Ornemens by Pierre Germain

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon, by Pierre-Adrien Paris

Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon

Pierre-Adrien Paris · ca. 1777–80

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Title Page

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre and Jacques Dupuy, by Robert Nanteuil

Pierre and Jacques Dupuy

Robert Nanteuil · ca. 1648–49

Public domainThe Met
Flambeau, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Flambeau

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and basin, by Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay

Ewer and basin

Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay · 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Pierre Joseph Demongé Chardigny, French, 1794 - 1866

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Pierre Joseph Demongé Chardigny, French, 1794 - 1866 · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine), by Jacques Gondouin

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Jacques Gondouin · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Title Page

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

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. 779 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 20466 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 2026-09-03 04:57 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.