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. 23 shown for “Jacob at the Well” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:59 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.
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Jacob at the Well

Jacob at the Well

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Rachel Meeting Jacob at the Well

Box with Rachel Meeting Jacob at the Well

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–50

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaves, Tenth and eleventh plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens, inventés et gravés par Nicolas Loire", by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Fan leaves, Tenth and eleventh plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens, inventés et gravés par Nicolas Loire"

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel

Guitar

Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Urena lobata L.

Urena lobata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1985

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
Centratherum punctatum Cass.

Centratherum punctatum Cass.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Fields, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Microstachys corniculata (Vahl) Griseb.

Microstachys corniculata (Vahl) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Croton lobatus L.

Croton lobatus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paullinia verrucosa Radlk. s.l.

Paullinia verrucosa Radlk. s.l.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, by Jacob Halder

Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales

Jacob Halder · ca. 1608

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia hirta L.

Euphorbia hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Shepherds, by Jacob Jordaens

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Public domainThe Met
Caperonia palustris (L.) A. St.-Hil.

Caperonia palustris (L.) A. St.-Hil.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia hyssopifolia L. subsp. hyssopifolia

Euphorbia hyssopifolia L. subsp. hyssopifolia

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623), by Jacob Halder

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Public domainThe Met
Bernardia sidoides (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Bernardia sidoides (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619), by Jacob Halder

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia hyssopifolia L.

Euphorbia hyssopifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995

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. 13994 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1331058 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 03:59 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.