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. 17 shown for “Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822” — 29 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:46 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.
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Farewell of the King to His Confessor, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Farewell of the King to His Confessor

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit, by Pieter de Hooch

The Visit

Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Public domainThe Met
Separation of the King and His Family, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Separation of the King and His Family

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Trial Scene, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Trial Scene

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

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
Louis' Farewell to His Family, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Louis' Farewell to His Family

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flora, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Flora

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Public domainThe Met
Marie Antoinette's Farewell to Her Son, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Marie Antoinette's Farewell to Her Son

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman, by Johannes Vermeer

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
A Maid Asleep, by Johannes Vermeer

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, by Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
The Preaching of John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Breenbergh

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

Public domainThe Met
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
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. 34 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 12:46 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.