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. 18 shown for “Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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.
Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York

Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–69

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer), by Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02

Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer)

Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York

Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–69

Public domainThe Met
Stephen Van Rensselaer III, by John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

Stephen Van Rensselaer III

John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1825-35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Van Rensselaer

Henry Van Rensselaer

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Van Rensselaer

Henry Van Rensselaer

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Henry Van Rensselaer

Henry Van Rensselaer

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained-glass window, by Evert Duyckinck

Stained-glass window

Evert Duyckinck · ca. 1656

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris x boottii Underw.

Dryopteris x boottii Underw.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Stephen Van Rensselaer, by Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · c. 1813

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

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Stephen Van Rensselaer, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Anthony van Dyck

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

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. 164 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. 3305875 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:09 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.