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 “Thomas Le Mere” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:21 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.
[Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson], by Unknown

[Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson]

Unknown · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Le Mere

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Le Mere · April 17, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers, by Camille Pissarro

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Le Mere

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Le Mere · April 17, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square vase, by Ernest Chaplet

Square vase

Ernest Chaplet · ca. 1889

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104

Peep-show, Vue d'Optique, Place de la Basilique de Saint Jean de Latran Mere et Chef de Toutes Les Eglises de Rome, No. 104

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1897

Public domainThe Met
Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Triglochin scilloides (Poir.) Mering & Kadereit

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Le Clear, by William Rudolf O'Donovan, born Preston County, VA 1844-died New York City 1920

Thomas Le Clear

William Rudolf O'Donovan, born Preston County, VA 1844-died New York City 1920 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Two Young Peasant Women, by Camille Pissarro

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

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. 1176 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 146586 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 2026-08-29 14:21 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.