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 “Claes Jansz. Visscher” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:17 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.
Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd), by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)

Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

Public domainThe Met
Massacre of the Innocents, by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, 1550 - 1612

Massacre of the Innocents

Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, 1550 - 1612 · ca. 1585-86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Family Saying Grace, by Claes Jansz. Visscher

A Family Saying Grace

Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1609

Public domainThe Met
Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula..., by Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz

Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula...

Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz · ca 1666

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Farms in a Village from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae, by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Farms in a Village from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
The Rat Catcher

The Rat Catcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Village Road, plate 14 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

A Village Road, plate 14 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Louis van Boisot

Portrait of Louis van Boisot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Village Road, plate 7 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

A Village Road, plate 7 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
The Dance In Front of An Inn

The Dance In Front of An Inn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Pond, plate 9 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

The Pond, plate 9 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Gellius de Bouma

Portrait of Gellius de Bouma

Artist not stated in the record · 1629-1658

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pond and a Village, plate 15 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Pond and a Village, plate 15 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forssk.) Børgesen

Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forssk.) Børgesen

Artist not stated in the record · 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Farmyard, plate 5 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Farmyard, plate 5 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
The Large Cat

The Large Cat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1657

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Swan's Inn, plate 6 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

The Swan's Inn, plate 6 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Jacob at the Well

Jacob at the Well

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Village Road, plate 3 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Village Road, plate 3 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Road into a Village, plate 19 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Road into a Village, plate 19 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Sheds, plate 21 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae", by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Large Sheds, plate 21 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Jansz. Visscher · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels, by Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658

Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels

Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658 · 1614

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. 113 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. 376 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 00:17 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.