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 “Portrait of Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:37 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.
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
Portrait of Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry

Portrait of Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

John Paul Jones

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1905

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

John Paul Jones

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Carl Guttenberg, 1743 - 1790

John Paul Jones

Carl Guttenberg, 1743 - 1790 · c. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Organization of Afro-American Unity Inc. Aims and Objectives, by Organization of Afro-American Unity, American, 1964 - 1965

Organization of Afro-American Unity Inc. Aims and Objectives

Organization of Afro-American Unity, American, 1964 - 1965 · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paul Baudry, by Paul Dubois

Paul Baudry

Paul Dubois · 1878

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Guttenburg, Carl

John Paul Jones

Guttenburg, Carl · ca 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Plans d’une Maison de Campagne Située à Courbevoye exécutée pour Mrs. Piau/ et Conseil Négocians, par Th. Bien aimé Architecte, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plans d’une Maison de Campagne Située à Courbevoye exécutée pour Mrs. Piau/ et Conseil Négocians, par Th. Bien aimé Architecte

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Elévation d’une Maison de Campagne Située à Courbevoye, Exécutée en 1797 pour Mrs. Piau et Conseil Négociants, par Ch. Bien-aimé Architecte, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Elévation d’une Maison de Campagne Située à Courbevoye, Exécutée en 1797 pour Mrs. Piau et Conseil Négociants, par Ch. Bien-aimé Architecte

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Bernhardt as the Duke of Reichstadt (later King of Rome), by Aimé Dupont, 1842 – 1900

Sarah Bernhardt as the Duke of Reichstadt (later King of Rome)

Aimé Dupont, 1842 – 1900 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Palmella chrysophthalma Mont.

Palmella chrysophthalma Mont.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

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
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. 230 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. 2918718 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 00:37 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.