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. 20 shown for “Dutch Painter” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 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
The Examination of Urine

The Examination of Urine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Crommelin, by Dutch Painter

Daniel Crommelin

Dutch Painter

Public domainThe Met
The Doctor's Visit

The Doctor's Visit

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Young Woman in a Landscape, by Dutch Painter

A Young Woman in a Landscape

Dutch Painter

Public domainThe Met
Saint Jerome, by van Roymerswael, Marinus

Saint Jerome

van Roymerswael, Marinus

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet on stand, by Jan van Mekeren

Cabinet on stand

Jan van Mekeren · ca. 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
LA PHARMACIE

LA PHARMACIE

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with flowers and birds

Dish with flowers and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Interieue D'une Pharmacie, by Brekenlenkamp, Quiryn Van

Interieue D'une Pharmacie

Brekenlenkamp, Quiryn Van

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man Seated in an Armchair, by Dutch (Amsterdam) Painter, about 1640–50

Portrait of a Man Seated in an Armchair

Dutch (Amsterdam) Painter, about 1640–50 · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Festive Scene, by Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch, born Haarlem, Netherlands ca. 1610-died Haarlem, Netherlands 1668

Festive Scene

Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch, born Haarlem, Netherlands ca. 1610-died Haarlem, Netherlands 1668 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Musicians, by Dutch (Utrecht Caravaggist) Painter, 17th century

Two Musicians

Dutch (Utrecht Caravaggist) Painter, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Storm, by Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch, born Emden, Germany 1631-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1708

The Storm

Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch, born Emden, Germany 1631-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1708 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Man

Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Artist not stated in the record · 1622

Public domainThe Met
Plate with figures in arbor, by Cornelis Pronk

Plate with figures in arbor

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon, by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon

Netherlandish Painter

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. 719 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 16818 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 16:36 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.