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 “Saint-Jean-du-Désert” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:05 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.
Tazza, by Saint-Jean-du-Désert

Tazza

Saint-Jean-du-Désert · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carex diandra Schrank

Carex diandra Schrank

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Saint-Jean-du-Désert

Dish

Saint-Jean-du-Désert · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Acer saccharum Marshall

Acer saccharum Marshall

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Apostles from Retable

Six Apostles from Retable

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Gratiola aurea Pursh

Gratiola aurea Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Gratiola lutea Raf.

Gratiola lutea Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Amour a L'Espagnole, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

L'Amour a L'Espagnole

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum fraseri Steud.

Hypericum fraseri Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette of the first volume, page 165: Usage des Russes après le Mariage et avant la Noce, from Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 [...], Paris, 1768 by Chappe d'Auteroche, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Vignette of the first volume, page 165: Usage des Russes après le Mariage et avant la Noce, from Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 [...], Paris, 1768 by Chappe d'Auteroche

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1767

Public domainThe Met
Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.

Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Amour a L'Espagnole, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

L'Amour a L'Espagnole

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Rosa carolina L.

Rosa carolina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Pleasures of the Countryside, by Louis Marin Bonnet

The Pleasures of the Countryside

Louis Marin Bonnet · mid to late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.

Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vertumnus Transforms Himself into an Old Woman and Attempts to Woo Pomona, from Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en Latin et en François de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Avec des explications historiques. A Paris Chez Despilly rue saint Jacques à la croix d'or. MDCCLXVII. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi, by Jean Jacques Leveau

Vertumnus Transforms Himself into an Old Woman and Attempts to Woo Pomona, from Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en Latin et en François de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Avec des explications historiques. A Paris Chez Despilly rue saint Jacques à la croix d'or. MDCCLXVII. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi

Jean Jacques Leveau · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Smilax herbacea L.

Smilax herbacea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, after Perrier, by Eugène Delacroix

A Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, after Perrier

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1822–26

Public domainThe Met
Carex lupuliformis Sartwell ex Dewey

Carex lupuliformis Sartwell ex Dewey

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures from the Arch of Constantine, after Perrier, by Eugène Delacroix

Figures from the Arch of Constantine, after Perrier

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1822–26

Public domainThe Met
Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.

Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entombment, by François Perrier

Entombment

François Perrier

Public domainThe Met
Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun

Isoetes riparia Engelm. ex A. Braun

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941

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. 493 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. 165 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 01:05 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.