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 Louis Dumesnil the Younger” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 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.
Card Players in a Drawing Room, by Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger

Card Players in a Drawing Room

Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger · ca. 1756–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling, No. 9 from "Plafons a la Moderne"

Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling, No. 9 from "Plafons a la Moderne"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, by Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869

Portrait of a Man

Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · 1844

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté, by Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté

Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halt of the Hunt, by Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

Halt of the Hunt

Carle (Charles André) Vanloo · ca. 1737

Public domainThe Met
Carle Vernet, by Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869

Carle Vernet

Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Distribution du Plan de la Retraitte, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Distribution du Plan de la Retraitte

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
An English Lord, by Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869

An English Lord

Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger, French, b. Paris, 1800–1869 · (1833)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Man of the Dumesnil Family, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Man of the Dumesnil Family

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, by Charles-Théodore Frère

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Public domainThe Met
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
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
April from a set of The Months of Lucas, by Master of the Months of Lucas

April from a set of The Months of Lucas

Master of the Months of Lucas · designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37

Public domainThe Met
Trade card of Louis Roupert, master goldsmith of Metz, by Pierre Rabon, French, 1619 - 1684

Trade card of Louis Roupert, master goldsmith of Metz

Pierre Rabon, French, 1619 - 1684 · 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
October from a set of The Months of Lucas, by Master of the Months of Lucas

October from a set of The Months of Lucas

Master of the Months of Lucas · designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37

Public domainThe Met
Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé, by Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752

Louis Quinze Le Bien Aimé

Charles Parrocel, French, 1688–1752 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV, by Michel Corneille the Younger

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV

Michel Corneille the Younger · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

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. 88 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. 1221756 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.