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 “The Sense of Sight” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:40 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 Sense of Sight, by Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds

The Sense of Sight

Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds

Public domainThe Met
The Sense of Sight

The Sense of Sight

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sight, by François Boucher

Sight

François Boucher · 1720–70

Public domainThe Met
La Veue (Sight) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses), by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

La Veue (Sight) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sight, by Abraham Bosse

Sight

Abraham Bosse · 1635–38

Public domainThe Met
La Vue, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

La Vue

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Sense of Sight, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith), by Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637

Sense of Sight, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Sense of Sight, by Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660

Sense of Sight

Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sight, from "Senses"

Sight, from "Senses"

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woodland Road with Travelers, by Jan Brueghel the Elder

A Woodland Road with Travelers

Jan Brueghel the Elder · 1607

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fleet of Aeneas Arrives in Sight of Italy (Aeneid, Book III), by Master of the Aeneid

The Fleet of Aeneas Arrives in Sight of Italy (Aeneid, Book III)

Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
A Moorish Smoking Room, by Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898

A Moorish Smoking Room

Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
La Vüe, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

La Vüe

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sight (one of a pair), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Sight (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry), by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses), by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Canal in Venice, by Unidentified (Italian)

Canal in Venice

Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century

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. 3027 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. 2983468 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 09:40 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.