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. 18 shown for “Anthonis Mor van Dashorst” — 53 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 09:32 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.
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Ottavio Farnese (1524–1586), Duke of Parma and Piacenza, by Anthonis Mor van Dashorst

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Ottavio Farnese (1524–1586), Duke of Parma and Piacenza

Anthonis Mor van Dashorst · 1563

Public domainThe Met
Pittosporum ramiflorum (Zoll. & Mor.) Zoll.

Pittosporum ramiflorum (Zoll. & Mor.) Zoll.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck

Artist not stated in the record · 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer

Peter Paul Rubens · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, after Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, after Anthony van Dyck

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of a Man

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Anthony Cornelissen, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Anthony Cornelissen, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman, by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Woman

Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (1752–1825), Brigadier of Engineers, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (1752–1825), Brigadier of Engineers

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1804

Public domainThe Met
The Arrival in Bethlehem, by Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Rosary, by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Portrait of a Man with a Rosary

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen · 1545

Public domainThe Met
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Jan Massys

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jan Massys · 1537–40

Public domainThe Met
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 38192 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 09:32 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.