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 “Jan Baptist Weenix” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:32 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.
An Extensive Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill, by Jan Baptist Weenix

An Extensive Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill

Jan Baptist Weenix · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Jean Baptiste Plauché, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Baptiste Plauché

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gamepiece with a Dead Heron, by Jan Weenix

Gamepiece with a Dead Heron

Jan Weenix · 1695

Public domainThe Met
Jean Baptiste Neuville Durel, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Baptiste Neuville Durel

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Preaching of John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Breenbergh

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

Public domainThe Met
John the Baptist Preaching, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

John the Baptist Preaching

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1587

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Jean Ursin Durel, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Jean Ursin Durel

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacocks, by Melchior d' Hondecoeter

Peacocks

Melchior d' Hondecoeter · 1683

Public domainThe Met
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Anabaena oscillarioides

Anabaena oscillarioides

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger, by Aelbert Bouts

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger

Aelbert Bouts · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Passerella iliaca iliaca

Passerella iliaca iliaca

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome given the Head of John the Baptist [left]; Salome offers the Head of John the Baptist to her Parents [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Stag Hunt with Rifles, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Stag Hunt with Rifles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve, by Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

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. 111 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. 504757 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 05:32 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.