OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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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 “Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:03 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.

Judgment of Paris, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Judgment of Paris

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · ca. 1753–56

Public domainThe Met
Summer (L'Esté), by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Summer (L'Esté)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1742–62

Public domainThe Met
Spring (Le Printemps), by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Spring (Le Printemps)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1742–62

Public domainThe Met
The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena, kneeling on a cloud carried by angels, one of whom holds a lily, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena, kneeling on a cloud carried by angels, one of whom holds a lily

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1729–40

Public domainThe Met
Alexander visiting the tomb of Achilles, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Alexander visiting the tomb of Achilles

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Simon François Ravenet, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Simon François Ravenet

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece: Gaigne Petit, plate 1 from "Le Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris), by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Frontispiece: Gaigne Petit, plate 1 from "Le Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin in prayer, looking at the sleeping infant Christ, in an oval frame, after Reni, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

The Virgin in prayer, looking at the sleeping infant Christ, in an oval frame, after Reni

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Gunhilda accused of adultery, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Gunhilda accused of adultery

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia deploring her misfortune to her husband Collatinus, her father, Publius Valerius, and Junius Brutus, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Lucretia deploring her misfortune to her husband Collatinus, her father, Publius Valerius, and Junius Brutus

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Afriquaine en deshabillé, plate 1 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet), by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Afriquaine en deshabillé, plate 1 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Femme du Levant, plate 8 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet), by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Femme du Levant, plate 8 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet)

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 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. 58 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 2026-08-26 18:03 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.