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 “de Genlir, French, n.d.” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:58 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.
Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean de Liège

Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux

Jean de Liège · ca. 1381

Public domainThe Met
Madame De Genlir, by de Genlir, French, n.d.

Madame De Genlir

de Genlir, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Tombeaux Dans la Vallee de Josaphat, Jerusalem, by T. Deshayes, French, n.d.

Tombeaux Dans la Vallee de Josaphat, Jerusalem

T. Deshayes, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
La Gouvernante Fidele, by C. N. Cochin, French, n.d.

La Gouvernante Fidele

C. N. Cochin, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, by M. R. Savart, French, active ca. 1775-1780

Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre

M. R. Savart, French, active ca. 1775-1780 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Marie Antoinette d'Autriche, reine des Francais; Louis XVI, roi des Francais, by Unidentified (French)

Marie Antoinette d'Autriche, reine des Francais; Louis XVI, roi des Francais

Unidentified (French) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
L' Ombre de Louis XVI, by Unidentified (French)

L' Ombre de Louis XVI

Unidentified (French) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Claus de Werve

Virgin and Child

Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–19

Public domainThe Met
Les Adieux de Marie Antoinette a Sa Famille, by Unidentified (French)

Les Adieux de Marie Antoinette a Sa Famille

Unidentified (French) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Benedict, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Saint Benedict

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Public domainThe Met
Testament de Louis XVI, by Unidentified (French)

Testament de Louis XVI

Unidentified (French) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Marie Antoinette, Reine de France, by Unidentified (French)

Marie Antoinette, Reine de France

Unidentified (French) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Marie Antoinette Josephe Jean de Lorraine, by Charles François Gabriel Levachez, French, active Paris, France 1760-1820

Marie Antoinette Josephe Jean de Lorraine

Charles François Gabriel Levachez, French, active Paris, France 1760-1820 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes, by Donato de' Bardi

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes

Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Public domainThe Met
M. Therese Charlotte, by Francois Bonneville, French, n.d.

M. Therese Charlotte

Francois Bonneville, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Monsieur de Voltaire, by Godefroy Engelmann I, French, born Mulhouse, France 1788-died Mulhouse, France 1839

Monsieur de Voltaire

Godefroy Engelmann I, French, born Mulhouse, France 1788-died Mulhouse, France 1839 · n.d.

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. 2047 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 676307 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 03:58 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.