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 “Roubiliac, French, active 18th century” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 12:05 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 Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), by Jean-Baptiste Stouf

The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)

Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1804–8

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Trophies, by Roubiliac, French, active 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mémoire sur un rouet a filer des deux mains a la fois, by Clousier

Mémoire sur un rouet a filer des deux mains a la fois

Clousier · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Trophies, by Roubiliac, French, active 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Album of Trophy Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Album of Trophy Designs

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Album of Arabesque Designs, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Album of Arabesque Designs

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796

Trophy Design

Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825), by Louis-François Jeannest

Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825)

Louis-François Jeannest · 1812

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796

Trophy Design

Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Crucifixion, by Master of the Orléans Triptych

Plaque with the Crucifixion

Master of the Orléans Triptych · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with Five Interlaced Hair-Pulling Acrobats

Corbel with Five Interlaced Hair-Pulling Acrobats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Title Page

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

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. 647 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. 132637 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 2026-09-01 12:05 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.