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 “Un Vieux Port de la Normandie (An Old Port of Normandy)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:25 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 Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Un Vieux Port de la Normandie (An Old Port of Normandy)

Un Vieux Port de la Normandie (An Old Port of Normandy)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Philippe de Champaigne

The Annunciation

Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1644

Public domainThe Met
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, by Alfred Sisley

Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun

Alfred Sisley · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy, by Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859

Renaissance Monument in Benedictine Church, Fecamp, Normandy

Auguste-Pierre Sainte-Marie Famin, French, 1776 – 1859 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Galium decolorans Bourg. ex Marés

Galium decolorans Bourg. ex Marés

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional posé dans un angle lequel est ceintré en S. / et orné d’une arrière-voussure au dessus de la porte / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional aussi posé dans un angle, la porte ouvrante plein ceintre sous une arriere-voussure de Marseille, et la corniche ornée d’un ceintre surbaissé, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional posé dans un angle lequel est ceintré en S. / et orné d’une arrière-voussure au dessus de la porte / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional aussi posé dans un angle, la porte ouvrante plein ceintre sous une arriere-voussure de Marseille, et la corniche ornée d’un ceintre surbaissé

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rape of Tamar, by Eustache Le Sueur

The Rape of Tamar

Eustache Le Sueur · probably ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Peep-show, Maison Quiserie de Magasins, pour la Marine du Roy, et une partie du Port de Plimouthe en Angelterre

Peep-show, Maison Quiserie de Magasins, pour la Marine du Roy, et une partie du Port de Plimouthe en Angelterre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Dumontia incrassata (O.F. Müller) J.V.Lamouroux

Dumontia incrassata (O.F. Müller) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy, by Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1877

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

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Ulothrix zonata (F. Weber & D. Mohr) Kütz.

Ulothrix zonata (F. Weber & D. Mohr) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · -- Apr ---- to -- Jul ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Letellier on His Deathbed, by Théodore Géricault

General Letellier on His Deathbed

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Public domainThe Met
Fucus ceranoides

Fucus ceranoides

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956), by Auguste Renoir

Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard (1874–1956)

Auguste Renoir · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Cystoclonium purpureum (Huds.) Batters

Cystoclonium purpureum (Huds.) Batters

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Codium fragile subsp. tomentosoides

Codium fragile subsp. tomentosoides

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1983

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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3439931 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-06 03:25 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.