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 “Traite des negre” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:00 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.
La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour, by Jean-Louis Lemoyne

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour

Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Public domainThe Met
Traite des negre

Traite des negre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité de l'horlogerie, méchanique et pratique, approuvé par l'Academie royale des sciences, by Antoine Thiout l'aîné

Traité de l'horlogerie, méchanique et pratique, approuvé par l'Academie royale des sciences

Antoine Thiout l'aîné · 1741

Public domainThe Met
Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Rudge) Nees

Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Rudge) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les oeuvres morales de Mr. Diderot : contenant son traité De l'amitié, et celui Des passions, by Marie Geneviève Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d'Arconville

Les oeuvres morales de Mr. Diderot : contenant son traité De l'amitié, et celui Des passions

Marie Geneviève Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d'Arconville · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Urena lobata L.

Urena lobata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arles, Porte des Châtaignes, by Charles Nègre

Arles, Porte des Châtaignes

Charles Nègre · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Urena lobata L.

Urena lobata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes, by Plutarch

Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes

Plutarch · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. & Thonn.

Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. & Thonn.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bashi-Bazouk, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

Public domainThe Met
Adelia ricinella L.

Adelia ricinella L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pratiqve de la Guerre. Contenant l'usage de l'Artillerie, Bombes & Mortiers, Feux Artificiels & Petards, Sappes & Mines, Ponts & Pontons, Tranchees & Travaux, auec l'ordre des Assauts aux Breches. Ensemble vn traite des Feux de Ioye/par le sievr de Malthvs…, by Francis Malthus

Pratiqve de la Guerre. Contenant l'usage de l'Artillerie, Bombes & Mortiers, Feux Artificiels & Petards, Sappes & Mines, Ponts & Pontons, Tranchees & Travaux, auec l'ordre des Assauts aux Breches. Ensemble vn traite des Feux de Ioye/par le sievr de Malthvs…

Francis Malthus · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Urena lobata L.

Urena lobata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Parterre du Jardin de la Royne mere a Luxembourg, in "Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art", by Michel van Lochom

Grand Parterre du Jardin de la Royne mere a Luxembourg, in "Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art"

Michel van Lochom · 1638

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia prostrata Aiton

Euphorbia prostrata Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spartan Soldier, by Charles Nègre

Spartan Soldier

Charles Nègre · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Hebeclinium macrophyllum (L.) DC.

Hebeclinium macrophyllum (L.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/11/26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Peter Baptizing Cornelius (Acts 10: 44-48), by Laurent Pécheux

St. Peter Baptizing Cornelius (Acts 10: 44-48)

Laurent Pécheux · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Dinoseris salicifolia Griseb.

Dinoseris salicifolia Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Agnes (one of a pair), by Diego de Tiedra

Saint Agnes (one of a pair)

Diego de Tiedra · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Canna indica L.

Canna indica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Tradescantia zebrina Bosse

Tradescantia zebrina Bosse

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1926

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. 200 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. 612829 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-05 11:00 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.