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 “Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 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.
A Boar Hunt, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

A Boar Hunt

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Girl's Head, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

A Girl's Head

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Rubens' Wife, by Unidentified (Flemish)

Portrait of Rubens' Wife

Unidentified (Flemish) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Design for an Altar

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheperd with his Flock and a Dog, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Sheperd with his Flock and a Dog

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Concert de Famille

Concert de Famille

Artist not stated in the record · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man of Sorrows and Two Studies of Heads, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Man of Sorrows and Two Studies of Heads

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Great Lion Hunt

Great Lion Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimney Place and Study of a Nude Female Figure, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Design for a Chimney Place and Study of a Nude Female Figure

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Personifications of the Nile, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates rivers, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Personifications of the Nile, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus

Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Bridge and a Village Church, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Landscape with a Bridge and a Village Church

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · ca. 1600 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Schelle, near Antwerp, seen from the North, with a Boat in the river Vliet, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Schelle, near Antwerp, seen from the North, with a Boat in the river Vliet

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deathbed Scene, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Deathbed Scene

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Rambaldo, graf von Collalto, by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Portrait of Rambaldo, graf von Collalto

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Bartholomeo Ehrenfüller(?), by Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Portrait of Bartholomeo Ehrenfüller(?)

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

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. 3086 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. 40076 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 10:47 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.