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 “Seated sheep” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:35 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.
Seated sheep, by Francesco Gallo

Seated sheep

Francesco Gallo · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated sheep

Seated sheep

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Shepherd

Seated Shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female

Seated female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated sheep, by Nicola Vassalo

Seated sheep

Nicola Vassalo · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pastoral Scene, by Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806

Pastoral Scene

Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated sheep, by Nicola Vassalo

Seated sheep

Nicola Vassalo · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Guet du Chien

Le Guet du Chien

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Seated Shepherd with His Dog and Sheep, by Jean-François Millet

A Seated Shepherd with His Dog and Sheep

Jean-François Millet · 1830–75

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765

Textile

Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765 · 1751–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A Seated Couple in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

A Seated Couple in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
A Little Shepherdess, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

A Little Shepherdess

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1740–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Shepherd's Song, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Shepherd's Song

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891

Public domainThe Met
L'Ouie, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

L'Ouie

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1736-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Shepherdess, by Jean-François Millet

Seated Shepherdess

Jean-François Millet · 1830–75

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Cotton Printing: "Les Quatre Saisons", by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Cartoon for Cotton Printing: "Les Quatre Saisons"

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
America, by Beauvais

America

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; settee frame second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Second Pastoral

Second Pastoral

Artist not stated in the record · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three figures seated beneath a tree with a body of water at left and sheep at right, by Jean Louis de Marne (called Demarnette)

Three figures seated beneath a tree with a body of water at left and sheep at right

Jean Louis de Marne (called Demarnette) · 1774–1829

Public domainThe Met
Griselda

Griselda

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1784

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. 53 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 14792 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-05 00:35 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.