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 “Victor Adam” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:20 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.
Camels in a Landscape, by Victor Adam

Camels in a Landscape

Victor Adam · mid 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Military Vignettes, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Military Vignettes

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1830–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Un an de la vie d'un jeune homme: Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres, Ecrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam (A Year in the Life of a Young Man: A True Story in 17 Chapters, Written by Himself and Lithographed by Victor Adam), by Victor Adam

Un an de la vie d'un jeune homme: Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres, Ecrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam (A Year in the Life of a Young Man: A True Story in 17 Chapters, Written by Himself and Lithographed by Victor Adam)

Victor Adam · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Chinese Promenade, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Chinese Promenade

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
The Retreat, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

The Retreat

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide, by Victor Adam

Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide

Victor Adam · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the letter B of a pictorial alphabet: Bienfaisance (Charity), by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the letter B of a pictorial alphabet: Bienfaisance (Charity)

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Military Festival at Boulogne with Napoleon Distributing Stars of the Legion of Honor, by Victor Adam

Military Festival at Boulogne with Napoleon Distributing Stars of the Legion of Honor

Victor Adam · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the letter C of a pictorial alphabet: Confession, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the letter C of a pictorial alphabet: Confession

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man wearing a cape, by Victor Adam

Man wearing a cape

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter J of a Pictoral Alphabet: Jupiter, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter J of a Pictoral Alphabet: Jupiter

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man sitting with a dog, by Victor Adam

Man sitting with a dog

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the letter S of a primer: Satan, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the letter S of a primer: Satan

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A soldier, by Victor Adam

A soldier

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter N of a Pictoral Alphabet: Napoléon, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter N of a Pictoral Alphabet: Napoléon

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soldier leaning on his sword, by Victor Adam

Soldier leaning on his sword

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter O of a Pictoral Alphabet: Odalisque, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter O of a Pictoral Alphabet: Odalisque

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three men arguing, by Victor Adam

Three men arguing

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Norman Peasants, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Norman Peasants

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1835-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soldier with a pegleg, by Victor Adam

Soldier with a pegleg

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter T of a Pictoral Alphabet: Turk, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter T of a Pictoral Alphabet: Turk

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three soldiers in a landscape, by Victor Adam

Three soldiers in a landscape

Victor Adam · mid–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Letter E of a Pictoral Alphabet: Etude (Study), by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Design for the Letter E of a Pictoral Alphabet: Etude (Study)

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1830

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. 121 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. 46358 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 23:20 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.