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. 18 shown for “Pierre Le Muet” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:26 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 First Book of Architecture by Andrea Palladio, by Pierre Le Muet

The First Book of Architecture by Andrea Palladio

Pierre Le Muet · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Plan du second Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan du second Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France, by Pierre Le Bourgeois

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France

Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Elevation de l’entrée de l’Hostel Tubeuf, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation de l’entrée de l’Hostel Tubeuf

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

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
Plan du premier estage du rez de chaussée de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan du premier estage du rez de chaussée de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

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
Elevation de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé du Jardin, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevation de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé du Jardin

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Plan du premier Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Plan du premier Estage de l’Hostel de Monsieur Tubeuf

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marin Le Pigny, by Pierre Robinet

Marin Le Pigny

Pierre Robinet · 1621

Public domainThe Met
Elevaon de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé de la court, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevaon de l’Hostel Tubeuf du costé de la court

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face du costé de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Face du costé de la cour du Chasteau de Pontz en Champagne

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierre Le Barbier Duplessis, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Pierre Le Barbier Duplessis

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tridax procumbens L.

Tridax procumbens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pierre Jeannin

Portrait of Pierre Jeannin

Artist not stated in the record · 1656

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A. R. Simões & Staples

Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A. R. Simões & Staples

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.

Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1945

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. 2617 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 39637 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 18:26 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.