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 “Saint-Honoré-les-Bains” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:52 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Snake, by Saint-Honoré-les-Bains

Snake

Saint-Honoré-les-Bains · ca. 1870–1880

Public domainThe Met
The declaration of Damocles, from "News of the day", by Honoré Daumier

The declaration of Damocles, from "News of the day"

Honoré Daumier · March 25, 1870

Public domainThe Met
Provided that the switchman lets nothing derail, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari", by Honoré Daumier

Provided that the switchman lets nothing derail, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier · January 22, 1870

Public domainThe Met
Les bains à quatre sous, from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, June 29, 1858, by Honoré Daumier

Les bains à quatre sous, from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, June 29, 1858

Honoré Daumier · June 29, 1858

Public domainThe Met
On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour me faire maigrir!..., from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 2, 1858, by Honoré Daumier

On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour me faire maigrir!..., from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 2, 1858

Honoré Daumier · August 2, 1858

Public domainThe Met
Vue des debris des bains de Neron from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples, by Adélaide Allou

Vue des debris des bains de Neron from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples

Adélaide Allou · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A forbidden swimming pleasure, from 'The bathers,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, August 6, 1864, by Honoré Daumier

A forbidden swimming pleasure, from 'The bathers,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, August 6, 1864

Honoré Daumier · August 6, 1864

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie, by Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie

Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie, by Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie

Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie, by Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie

Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie, by Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie

Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 35 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:52 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.