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. 13 shown for “Une Mare (Environs de Rossilon)” — 41 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:45 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 Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Une Mare (Environs de Rossilon)

Une Mare (Environs de Rossilon)

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H. Raven

Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H. Raven

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Struchium sparganophorum (L.) Kuntze

Struchium sparganophorum (L.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Azolla imbricata (Roxb.) Nakai

Azolla imbricata (Roxb.) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus sp.

Juncus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pistia stratiotes L.

Pistia stratiotes L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calamagrostis neglecta subsp. inexpansa (A. Gray) Tzvelev

Calamagrostis neglecta subsp. inexpansa (A. Gray) Tzvelev

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Echinochloa stagnina (Retz.) P. Beauv.

Echinochloa stagnina (Retz.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix tetrasperma Roxb.

Salix tetrasperma Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacciolepis interrupta (Willd.) Stapf

Sacciolepis interrupta (Willd.) Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ichnanthus tenuis (J. Presl) Hitchc. & Chase

Ichnanthus tenuis (J. Presl) Hitchc. & Chase

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 2005

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 619221 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 01:45 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.