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 “Cornelis van Caukercken” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:32 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.
Christ and the 12 Apostles, by Cornelis van Caukercken

Christ and the 12 Apostles

Cornelis van Caukercken · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cimon and Pero, by Cornelis van Caukercken

Cimon and Pero

Cornelis van Caukercken · ca. 1650–80

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
The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne seated on a bench looking upwards and putting her arm around the Virgin, by Cornelis van Caukercken

The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne seated on a bench looking upwards and putting her arm around the Virgin

Cornelis van Caukercken · ca. 1645–78

Public domainThe Met
Leucobryum antarense van Zanten

Leucobryum antarense van Zanten

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

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
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
Hibiscus trionum L.

Hibiscus trionum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Hunting snakes, by Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650

Hunting snakes

Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650 · ca. 1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Fields, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Jacob at the Well

Jacob at the Well

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Cornelis C. Anslo

Portrait of Cornelis C. Anslo

Artist not stated in the record · 1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch, by Cornelis Engebrechtsz

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch

Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30

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
Self-Portrait, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Self-Portrait

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

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
Flora, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Flora

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Public domainThe Met
Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher

Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher

Artist not stated in the record · 1634

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers", by Hendrick Goltzius

Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

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. 329 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. 37636 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 22:32 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.