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. 22 shown for “Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink” — 50 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:11 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.
The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · ca. 1601

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid, by De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels)

Jar and lid

De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) · 1673–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1599

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith, by Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865

Gerrit Smith

Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith, by William Kurtz, 1834 - 1904

Gerrit Smith

William Kurtz, 1834 - 1904 · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John the Baptist Preaching, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

St. John the Baptist Preaching

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Gerrit Smith

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Cecilia, Playing the Organ, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

St. Cecilia, Playing the Organ

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Boon, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Gerrit Boon

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith, by Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 26 Oct 1801 - 14 Oct 1874

Gerrit Smith

Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 26 Oct 1801 - 14 Oct 1874 · c. 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faith, Hope and Charity, by Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

Faith, Hope and Charity

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · ca. 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Jan Muller

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jan Muller · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sinfulness of Mankind, by Gerrit Pietersz

The Sinfulness of Mankind

Gerrit Pietersz · 1591–1650

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Party in the Open Air, by Gerrit Pietersz

Musical Party in the Open Air

Gerrit Pietersz · 1591–1650

Public domainThe Met
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11982 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-29 07:11 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.