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 “Unknown, French” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:46 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.
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Paradrymonia campostyla (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler

Paradrymonia campostyla (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri-Charles Maniglier, by Unknown

Henri-Charles Maniglier

Unknown · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Ozaena maxi

Ozaena maxi

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musette Baroque, by Unknown

Musette Baroque

Unknown · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Tachuda forfex

Tachuda forfex

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Farmyard Scene], by V. Dijon

[Farmyard Scene]

V. Dijon · 1850–54

Public domainThe Met
Notoplusia oyapoca

Notoplusia oyapoca

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent, by Unknown

Serpent

Unknown · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Symphysa glorialis

Symphysa glorialis

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5, by Goupil et Cie

Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5

Goupil et Cie · 1876–1881

Public domainThe Met
Farigia basiviridis

Farigia basiviridis

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Nude (Danaë), by French

Female Nude (Danaë)

French · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Trumanda fifiana

Trumanda fifiana

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Pseudantiora irregularis

Pseudantiora irregularis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France], by M. Leon

[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]

M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Boriza argentipunctata

Boriza argentipunctata

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eiffel Tower, by Unknown

Eiffel Tower

Unknown · 1890s

Public domainThe Met
Misogada nigrifulva

Misogada nigrifulva

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palais du Trocadero, by Unknown

Palais du Trocadero

Unknown · 1890s

Public domainThe Met
Chadisra flavodiscata

Chadisra flavodiscata

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Roman Theater at Nimes], by Unknown

[Roman Theater at Nimes]

Unknown · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Odoxia concota

Odoxia concota

Artist not stated in the record

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. 1138 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 471378 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 15:46 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.