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 “Frans Francken II” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 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.
Adoration of the Magi, by Frans Francken II

Adoration of the Magi

Frans Francken II · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1645-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Death of a Religious Man, by Frans Francken II

Allegory of the Death of a Religious Man

Frans Francken II · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, by Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Adam-Frans van der Meulen

Portrait of Adam-Frans van der Meulen

Artist not stated in the record · 1687

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man

Frans Hals · early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Juglans microcarpa Berland. in Berland. & Chovell

Juglans microcarpa Berland. in Berland. & Chovell

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650), by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650)

Frans Hals · ca. 1636–38

Public domainThe Met
Head of a man in the style of Frans Hals, by Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897

Head of a man in the style of Frans Hals

Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of a Gothic Church by Day, by Pieter Neeffs the Elder

Interior of a Gothic Church by Day

Pieter Neeffs the Elder · probably ca. 1635–40

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Gothic Church at Night, by Pieter Neeffs the Elder

Interior of a Gothic Church at Night

Pieter Neeffs the Elder · probably ca. 1635–40

Public domainThe Met
Paulus Verschuur (1606–1667), by Frans Hals

Paulus Verschuur (1606–1667)

Frans Hals · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Gothic Church at Night, by Pieter Neeffs the Younger

Interior of a Gothic Church at Night

Pieter Neeffs the Younger · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Margherita Gonzaga (1591–1632), Princess of Mantua, by Frans Pourbus the Younger

Margherita Gonzaga (1591–1632), Princess of Mantua

Frans Pourbus the Younger

Public domainThe Met
Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd), by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)

Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

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. 94 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. 34525 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 06:44 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.