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 Nicolas Ransonnette” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 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.
Design for an Architectural Interior, by Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette

Design for an Architectural Interior

Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle, by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine, by Abbé Claude Francois Xavier Millot

Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine

Abbé Claude Francois Xavier Millot · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

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

Leda and the Swan

Michel Anguier · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, by Nicolas Poussin

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brother Philippe's Geese, by Nicolas Lancret

Brother Philippe's Geese

Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1736

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Servant Justified, by Nicolas Lancret

The Servant Justified

Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal, by Nicolas Poussin

Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1635–36

Public domainThe Met
Bound print, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Bound print

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1771–1802

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. 277 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. 18519 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 2026-08-28 11:20 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.