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. 19 shown for “Jacques Lucas” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 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.
Portable horizontal sundial, by Jacques Lucas

Portable horizontal sundial

Jacques Lucas · probably before 1681

Public domainThe Met
Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Fountain Design, from "Livre nouveau de douze morceaux de fantaisie", by Claude Lucas, active 1710–1760

Fountain Design, from "Livre nouveau de douze morceaux de fantaisie"

Claude Lucas, active 1710–1760 · ca. 1733

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902), by Edgar Degas

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)

Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1), by David Lucas

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Trichodesmium scoboideum A.H.S. Lucas

Trichodesmium scoboideum A.H.S. Lucas

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1), by David Lucas

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Tillandsia tomasellii De Luca et al.

Tillandsia tomasellii De Luca et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1), by David Lucas

Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Mary Magdalen Trampling Her Valuables, by Lucas Vorsterman I

St. Mary Magdalen Trampling Her Valuables

Lucas Vorsterman I · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child, by Lucas Vorsterman I

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child

Lucas Vorsterman I · 1620

Public domainThe Met
Hermaphrodite, by Peter Paul Rubens

Hermaphrodite

Peter Paul Rubens · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Three Trees in the Foreground, by Lucas Achtschellinck

Landscape with Three Trees in the Foreground

Lucas Achtschellinck · 1641–99

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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 13475 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 19:19 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.