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. 19 shown for “Tholey, Charles P.” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 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.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Rock Ptarmigan, by Tholey, Charles P.

Rock Ptarmigan

Tholey, Charles P. · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784, by Tholey, Charles P.

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784

Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
George McClellan and Family, by Tholey Lithography Company, active c. 1851 - 1898

George McClellan and Family

Tholey Lithography Company, active c. 1851 - 1898 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Washington and Friends After a Days Hunt, by Smith, John

Washington and Friends After a Days Hunt

Smith, John · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Charles Lindbergh, Philip Love and Thomas P. Nelson, by Unidentified Artist

Charles Lindbergh, Philip Love and Thomas P. Nelson

Unidentified Artist · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apple Blossoms, by Charles-François Daubigny

Apple Blossoms

Charles-François Daubigny · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.

Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5, by Goupil et Cie

Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5

Goupil et Cie · 1876–1881

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.

Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Bashi-Bazouk, by Charles Bargue

A Bashi-Bazouk

Charles Bargue · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, by P R

Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena

P R · 1741

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. 8465 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 657357 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:59 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.