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 “Arnold van Westerhout” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 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.
Saint Paul preaching at center, standing in a crowd in a columned interior, pointing upwards toward putti who hold a scroll, by Arnold van Westerhout

Saint Paul preaching at center, standing in a crowd in a columned interior, pointing upwards toward putti who hold a scroll

Arnold van Westerhout · 1681–1725

Public domainThe Met
Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Arnold van Westerhout

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Arnold van Westerhout · 1650–1700

Public domainThe Met
Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sinorix being carried from the temple after being poisioned, by Arnold van Westerhout

Sinorix being carried from the temple after being poisioned

Arnold van Westerhout · 1650–1700

Public domainThe Met
Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self portait as an artist, holding a drawing board and implement, by Pietro Testa

Self portait as an artist, holding a drawing board and implement

Pietro Testa · ca. 1645

Public domainThe Met
Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: front view, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: front view

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy, by Pietro Testa

Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy

Pietro Testa · 1648–50

Public domainThe Met
Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689), by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689)

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left, by Pietro Testa

Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left

Pietro Testa · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: rear view, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: rear view

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial, by Guillaume Courtois

Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial

Guillaume Courtois · 1650–60

Public domainThe Met
Johannes Van Buyten, by Westerhout, Arnaldo Van

Johannes Van Buyten

Westerhout, Arnaldo Van · 1674

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial, by Guillaume Courtois

Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial

Guillaume Courtois · 1650–60

Public domainThe Met
Malus floribunda Siebold ex Van Houtte

Malus floribunda Siebold ex Van Houtte

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of St. Joseph, by Robert van Audenaerde

The Death of St. Joseph

Robert van Audenaerde

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage of the Virgin, by Robert van Audenaerde

Marriage of the Virgin

Robert van Audenaerde

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flight into Egypt, by Robert van Audenaerde

Flight into Egypt

Robert van Audenaerde

Public domainThe Met
Pluto medius zuliensis

Pluto medius zuliensis

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The suicide of the philosopher Cato, who lies on his bed pulling out his innards watched by horrified disciples, by Pietro Testa

The suicide of the philosopher Cato, who lies on his bed pulling out his innards watched by horrified disciples

Pietro Testa · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Pluto incarinatus

Pluto incarinatus

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1976

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. 173 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. 41313 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 13:50 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.