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. 22 shown for “Bromus rubens L.” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:22 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.
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

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
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Acheloüs, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Pseudo-Seneca, by Peter Paul Rubens

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens · 1600–1626

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Adonis, by Peter Paul Rubens

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1911 to 8 May 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1911 to 8 May 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Eucharist, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Glorification of the Eucharist

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630–32

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atalanta and Meleager, by Peter Paul Rubens

Atalanta and Meleager

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1938

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. 422 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. 1300991 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 16:22 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.