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 “Rodolphe Bresdin” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 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 Good Samaritan, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Good Samaritan

Rodolphe Bresdin · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountainous Scene, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Mountainous Scene

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Unidentified Artist

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Unidentified Artist · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caucasian Landscape, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Caucasian Landscape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Unidentified Artist

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Unidentified Artist · c. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunt, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879? · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mountain Stream, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Mountain Stream

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879? · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Departure for the Hunt, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Departure for the Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Walter Ingalls, 1805 - 1874

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Walter Ingalls, 1805 - 1874 · 1872-73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Eyrie, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Eyrie

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Black & Batchelder, active 1850 - 1900?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Black & Batchelder, active 1850 - 1900? · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Young Girls, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Study of Young Girls

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Convalescent, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Convalescent

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879?

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Antoine Sonrel, 1779 - 1879? · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farm, by Rodolphe Bresdin

The Farm

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, by William Couper, born Norfolk, VA 1853-died Easton, MD 1942

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

William Couper, born Norfolk, VA 1853-died Easton, MD 1942 · ca. 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Various Studies, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Various Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Public domainThe Met
Author's Group, by Eugene L'Africain, 1859 - 1892

Author's Group

Eugene L'Africain, 1859 - 1892 · 1883

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. 92 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. 120 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 22:40 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.