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 “Claus de Werve” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.
Virgin and Child, by Claus de Werve

Virgin and Child

Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–17

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul, by Claus de Werve

Saint Paul

Claus de Werve · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus amarus Pall.

Astragalus amarus Pall.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus helmii DC.

Astragalus helmii DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Eremosparton aphyllum (Pall.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Eremosparton aphyllum (Pall.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–20

Public domainThe Met
Santa Claus, by Oriental Printworks

Santa Claus

Oriental Printworks · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leda and the Swan, by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Leda and the Swan

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus

Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint James the Greater

Saint James the Greater

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Public domainThe Met
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus

Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain, by Louis Simon Boizot

Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain

Louis Simon Boizot · 1806, modified 1818

Public domainThe Met
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)

The Crucifixion

Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

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. 203 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 614049 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.