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. 21 shown for “Adriaan de Weerdt” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:37 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.
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, Three Women, and an Angel, by Adriaan de Weerdt

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, Three Women, and an Angel

Adriaan de Weerdt · mid 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Philip II, by Pieter Van Gunst, c. 1667 - 1724

Philip II

Pieter Van Gunst, c. 1667 - 1724 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Adriaan de Weerdt

Charity

Adriaan de Weerdt · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Contopus sordidulus veliei

Contopus sordidulus veliei

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Groundplan of the Church of Saint John in ’s-Hertogenbosch, by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Groundplan of the Church of Saint John in ’s-Hertogenbosch

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Thryomanes bewickii

Thryomanes bewickii

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Vireo solitarius cassinii

Vireo solitarius cassinii

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Pipilo fuscus senicula

Pipilo fuscus senicula

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Weighing Gold, by Adriaen Isenbrant

Man Weighing Gold

Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Carduelis tristis salicamans

Carduelis tristis salicamans

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
A Woman Seated at a Window, by Gabriël Metsu

A Woman Seated at a Window

Gabriël Metsu · early 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Vermivora celata sordida

Vermivora celata sordida

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit to the Nursery, by Gabriël Metsu

The Visit to the Nursery

Gabriël Metsu · 1661

Public domainThe Met
Still Life with Lobster and Fruit, by Abraham van Beyeren

Still Life with Lobster and Fruit

Abraham van Beyeren · probably early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Carduelis psaltria hesperophila

Carduelis psaltria hesperophila

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1658

Public domainThe Met
Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis

Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1908

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 · 1 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. 612650 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-02 00:37 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.