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. 12 shown for “Project for a Salon” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 23:14 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Project for a Salon

Project for a Salon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cross Section of a Salon and a Gallery, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Cross Section of a Salon and a Gallery

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salon Wall

Design for a Salon Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of a Salon, by Vladislav Dmochowski, Lithuanian

Interior of a Salon

Vladislav Dmochowski, Lithuanian · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Four Walls of a Salon

Design for Four Walls of a Salon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Salon, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Elevation of a Salon

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1720–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of the Wall of a Salon, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Elevation of the Wall of a Salon

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salon, with Oriental carpet and grand piano, by McMillen, Inc.

Salon, with Oriental carpet and grand piano

McMillen, Inc. · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fireplace for a Salon or the End of a Gallery

Design for a Fireplace for a Salon or the End of a Gallery

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salon, by François-Jacques Delannoy, French, 1755 - 1835

Design for a Salon

François-Jacques Delannoy, French, 1755 - 1835 · ca. 1785

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2502663 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 23:14 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.