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. 23 shown for “Tournai” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 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.
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph and Putti; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers, by Piat Joseph Sauvage

Nymph and Putti; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers

Piat Joseph Sauvage

Public domainThe Met
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · 1853 to 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Tournai

Plate

Tournai · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV, by Tournai

Louis XV

Tournai · ca. 1756

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate (one of a pair), by Tournai

Plate (one of a pair)

Tournai · ca. 1762–70

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Tournai

Plate

Tournai · ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Dec 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Tournai

Dish

Tournai · ca. 1762–75

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1929 to 7 Sep 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Tournai

Plate

Tournai · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Tournai

Plate

Tournai · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Swing, by Tournai

The Swing

Tournai · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1894

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. 95 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. 225 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 09:54 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.