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 “Israhel van Meckenem” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:12 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.
Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence, by Israhel van Meckenem

Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence

Israhel van Meckenem · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Standing Cup, by Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497

Design for a Silver Standing Cup

Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497 · 1498

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fool and the Lady, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Fool and the Lady

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
St. Elizabeth

St. Elizabeth

Artist not stated in the record · before 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
The Beheading of John the Baptist

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
Garden of Love, by Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

Garden of Love

Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hares Roasting the Hunter, by Israhel van Meckenem

Hares Roasting the Hunter

Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Lute Player and the Singer (2nd state)

The Lute Player and the Singer (2nd state)

Artist not stated in the record · before 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin, by Israhel van Meckenem

Saint Martin

Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin", by Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"

Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coat of Arms with a Lion, by Israhel van Meckenem

Coat of Arms with a Lion

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Resurrection, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Resurrection

Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
The Children's Bath, by Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

The Children's Bath

Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · before 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Four Fathers of the Church, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Four Fathers of the Church

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
A Couple Seated on a Bed

A Couple Seated on a Bed

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Israhel van Meckenem

The Nativity

Israhel van Meckenem

Public domainThe Met
Christ as the Man of Sorrows Between Two Angels, by Israhel van Meckenem

Christ as the Man of Sorrows Between Two Angels

Israhel van Meckenem · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Lute Player and Harpist, from Scenes of Daily Life, by Israhel van Meckenem

Lute Player and Harpist, from Scenes of Daily Life

Israhel van Meckenem · n.d.

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. 49 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. 29182 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 2026-09-01 17:12 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.