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. 21 shown for “Herman Saftleven II” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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.
Fantasy Rhine Landscape, by Herman Saftleven II

Fantasy Rhine Landscape

Herman Saftleven II · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Le Porcher, by Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685

Le Porcher

Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasant with Child, by Herman Saftleven II

Peasant with Child

Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape, by Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685

Landscape

Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River Landscape with Mountains, by Herman Saftleven II

River Landscape with Mountains

Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pilot Chute from World War II, by Pacific Parachute Company, American, 1942 - 1944

Pilot Chute from World War II

Pacific Parachute Company, American, 1942 - 1944 · ca. 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta), by Herman Saftleven II

Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)

Herman Saftleven II · 1680

Public domainThe Met
Vestibule Corner ''Schleissheim," Prince Regent Luitpold's Palace, by Herman Hartwich, born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926

Vestibule Corner ''Schleissheim," Prince Regent Luitpold's Palace

Herman Hartwich, born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Seated Peasant Woman, Viewed from Behind and to the Left, by Herman Saftleven II

Study of a Seated Peasant Woman, Viewed from Behind and to the Left

Herman Saftleven II · 1629–85

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Three Fritillaries, by Herman Saftleven II

Study of Three Fritillaries

Herman Saftleven II · 1683

Public domainThe Met
Herman Vogel, by Unidentified Artist

Herman Vogel

Unidentified Artist · c. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Travelers in a Forest, by Herman Saftleven II

Travelers in a Forest

Herman Saftleven II · 1647

Public domainThe Met
Callilepis corymbosa P.P.J. Herman & Koek.

Callilepis corymbosa P.P.J. Herman & Koek.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654, by Herman Saftleven II

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654

Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Herman Henry Kohlsaat, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

Herman Henry Kohlsaat

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of Peasants, by Herman Saftleven II

Studies of Peasants

Herman Saftleven II · 1625–85

Public domainThe Met
Herman Binger, by Unidentified Artist

Herman Binger

Unidentified Artist · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Axel Herman Haig III, by Anders Zorn

Axel Herman Haig III

Anders Zorn · 1884

Public domainThe Met
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin Adoring the Host, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Virgin Adoring the Host

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1852

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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 35371 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:55 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.