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. 15 shown for “René Le Bègue” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:33 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.
Académie, by René Le Bègue

Académie

René Le Bègue · 1902

Public domainThe Met
Carex paniculata L.

Carex paniculata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Study in Orange], by René Le Bègue

[Study in Orange]

René Le Bègue · 1904

Public domainThe Met
The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault, by Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598

The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault

Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598 · 1591

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Study in Orange], by René Le Bègue

[Study in Orange]

René Le Bègue · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Journal de distribution des Fourrages pour l'Ecurie de S. A.sse S.me E.me M.gr le Cardinal de Rohan, precede du tariff des prix des ouvrages relatives à cette partie, extrata des marches faits avec les Ouvriers et Fournisseurs. ***1er Janvier 1782.

Journal de distribution des Fourrages pour l'Ecurie de S. A.sse S.me E.me M.gr le Cardinal de Rohan, precede du tariff des prix des ouvrages relatives à cette partie, extrata des marches faits avec les Ouvriers et Fournisseurs. ***1er Janvier 1782.

Artist not stated in the record · 1782–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stipa pennata L.

Stipa pennata L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrifice of the first-born, by Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598

Sacrifice of the first-born

Theodor de Bry, 1528 - 1598 · 1591

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Title Page

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Design for a Pendant Trophy

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · ca. 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euclinia longiflora Salisb.

Euclinia longiflora Salisb.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grewia decipiens Capuron ined.

Grewia decipiens Capuron ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchopyle elongata (Engl.) Engl.

Rhynchopyle elongata (Engl.) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schismatoglottis trivittata Hallier

Schismatoglottis trivittata Hallier

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dilodendron bipinnatum Radlk.

Dilodendron bipinnatum Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1994

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. 463 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29041 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 20:33 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.