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 “Frederick van Frijtom” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 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.
Plaque with an Italinate landscape, by Frederick van Frijtom

Plaque with an Italinate landscape

Frederick van Frijtom · ca. 1660–92

Public domainThe Met
Rip Van Winkle, by Frederick MacMonnies, born New York City 1863-died New York City 1937

Rip Van Winkle

Frederick MacMonnies, born New York City 1863-died New York City 1937 · 1876-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with a Dutch landscape, possibly a view of Kethel, by Frederick van Frijtom

Plaque with a Dutch landscape, possibly a view of Kethel

Frederick van Frijtom · ca. 1660–92

Public domainThe Met
John Van Buren

John Van Buren

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Impatiens capensis Meerb.

Impatiens capensis Meerb.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser

Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XIV, by Martin van den Bogaert called Desjardins

Louis XIV

Martin van den Bogaert called Desjardins · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Acer negundo L.

Acer negundo L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

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

Bellona

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Public domainThe Met
Acer negundo L.

Acer negundo L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Public domainThe Met
Impatiens pallida Nutt.

Impatiens pallida Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Frederick Mayer

Charles Frederick Mayer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Carpinus caroliniana Walter

Carpinus caroliniana Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Van Amburgh. Outdone!, by John Doyle

Van Amburgh. Outdone!

John Doyle · December 3, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Hamamelis virginiana L.

Hamamelis virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole

Girandole

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Hydrangea arborescens L.

Hydrangea arborescens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole

Girandole

Artist not stated in the record · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Impatiens pallida Nutt.

Impatiens pallida Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780, by Currier & Ives

The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780

Currier & Ives · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene

Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

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. 222 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 77853 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.