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 “Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:53 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.
Christ Crucified, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Christ Crucified

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · before 1619

Public domainThe Met
St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Descent from the Cross, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Descent from the Cross

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · before 1619

Public domainThe Met
Temperance, plate 7 of "VII Virtutim...Imagines", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Temperance, plate 7 of "VII Virtutim...Imagines"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Typus Utriusque S. Legis, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Typus Utriusque S. Legis

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · 1570–1619

Public domainThe Met
Justice (Iustitia), plate 5 from the "Virtutum theologicarum et cardinalium", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Justice (Iustitia), plate 5 from the "Virtutum theologicarum et cardinalium"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Five Wise Virgins, from the suite "Speculum Virginitatis"

The Five Wise Virgins, from the suite "Speculum Virginitatis"

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

The Lamentation

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · before 1619

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633), by Paul de la Houve, French, 1575 - 1643

Portrait of Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633)

Paul de la Houve, French, 1575 - 1643 · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation (Humilis), by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

The Annunciation (Humilis)

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Virgin and Child

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ in the Wine Press, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Christ in the Wine Press

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · before 1619

Public domainThe Met
A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pietà, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Pietà

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Public domainThe Met
Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion (Round) (reverse copy), by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

The Crucifixion (Round) (reverse copy)

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David with the Head of Goliath, by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

David with the Head of Goliath

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · 1578

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, by Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603

The Crucifixion

Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith, from "Tyrannorum Proemia", by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

Judith, from "Tyrannorum Proemia"

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix · 1578

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · 1602

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. 57 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. 2742 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 06:53 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.