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 “Gillis van Breen” — 64 records examined, 13 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.
The Commandment to Love One Another, by Gillis van Breen

The Commandment to Love One Another

Gillis van Breen · 1599

Public domainThe Met
Toxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo (Greene) Gillis

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo (Greene) Gillis

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1914

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
Phoradendron liga (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Eichler

Phoradendron liga (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Eichler

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Manilkara staminodella Gilly

Manilkara staminodella Gilly

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration, by Gillis van Tilborgh

Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration

Gillis van Tilborgh

Public domainThe Met
Aloysia gratissima (Gillies & Hook.) Tronc.

Aloysia gratissima (Gillies & Hook.) Tronc.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Landscape, by Gillis van Coninxloo

Wooded Landscape

Gillis van Coninxloo · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e], by Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e]

Pieter Coecke van Aelst · 1550

Public domainThe Met
Anabaena sphaerica Bornet & Flahault

Anabaena sphaerica Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen, by Sebastiano Serlio

Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen

Sebastiano Serlio · 1546, 1549, 1553

Public domainThe Met
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of St. John Lateran, Rome, by Gillis van Coninxloo

View of St. John Lateran, Rome

Gillis van Coninxloo · after 1589

Public domainThe Met
Laurencia intricata J.V.Lamouroux

Laurencia intricata J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Gillis van Coninxloo

Landscape

Gillis van Coninxloo · late 16th, early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as her Most Precious Ornaments, by Gillis Mostaert the Elder

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as her Most Precious Ornaments

Gillis Mostaert the Elder · mid-16th–late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Gelidium sp.

Gelidium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · -- Jul ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serlio's five books on architecture, by Sebastiano Serlio

Serlio's five books on architecture

Sebastiano Serlio · 1550, 1553

Public domainThe Met
Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh

Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of abundance: Ceres holding a cornucopia at right and Pomona at left feeding fruit to a monkey, by Theodor van Kessel

Allegory of abundance: Ceres holding a cornucopia at right and Pomona at left feeding fruit to a monkey

Theodor van Kessel · ca. 1652–60

Public domainThe Met
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1950

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 32388 matched · 40 examined · 11 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.