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 Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:03 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.
Oeuvres, Vols. I-IV, by Jean Le Pautre

Oeuvres, Vols. I-IV

Jean Le Pautre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Gervais, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Gervais

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres, Vol. I, by Jean Le Pautre

Oeuvres, Vol. I

Jean Le Pautre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de L’Eglise de Saint Germain de L’Auxerrois, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de Saint Germain de L’Auxerrois

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
French Judith, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes", by Abraham Bosse

French Judith, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes"

Abraham Bosse · 1647

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zenobia, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes", by Abraham Bosse

Zenobia, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes"

Abraham Bosse · ca. 1647

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An officer giving orders to a soldier in centre foreground, cannon at left, plate 3 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari), by Stefano della Bella

An officer giving orders to a soldier in centre foreground, cannon at left, plate 3 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Pikeman standing at right next to a canon, other military figures in the background, plate 5 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari), by Stefano della Bella

A Pikeman standing at right next to a canon, other military figures in the background, plate 5 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Eustache sur le Dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657-1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A cannon to the left, a town in the background, plate 2 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari), by Stefano della Bella

A cannon to the left, a town in the background, plate 2 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Paul Par Mr. Masson, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de L’Eglise de St. Paul Par Mr. Masson

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battery of cannons firing on a city, plate 6 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari), by Stefano della Bella

Battery of cannons firing on a city, plate 6 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Two Frieze Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A military encampment with a soldier standing on a parapet to the right beating a drum, plate 4 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari), by Stefano della Bella

A military encampment with a soldier standing on a parapet to the right beating a drum, plate 4 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Two Frieze Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combat on a bridge, a horseman and two footsoldiers battle with swords at bottom right, one footsoldier on the ground to left of the horseman, various soldiers with swords on the bridge in the background, French coat of arms displayed in center of bridge, title page of "Varie figure", by Stefano della Bella

Combat on a bridge, a horseman and two footsoldiers battle with swords at bottom right, one footsoldier on the ground to left of the horseman, various soldiers with swords on the bridge in the background, French coat of arms displayed in center of bridge, title page of "Varie figure"

Stefano della Bella · ca. 1645

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Two Frieze Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silenus and Satyr, by Nicolaus Chapron

Silenus and Satyr

Nicolaus Chapron · 1634–56

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Two Frieze Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Architecture a La Mode ou sont les Nouveaux Dessins pour la Décoration des Bâtimens et Jardins, by Nicolas Langlois

L'Architecture a La Mode ou sont les Nouveaux Dessins pour la Décoration des Bâtimens et Jardins

Nicolas Langlois · [ca. 1680–ca. 1710]

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Two Frieze Designs

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1716

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. 42 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. 123185 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 22:03 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.