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. 14 shown for “Jan Josef Horemans the Elder” — 43 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:02 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.
A Carpenter at Work, by Jan Josef Horemans the Elder

A Carpenter at Work

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Painter, by Jan Josef Horemans the Elder

The Painter

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Tragia cordata Willd.

Tragia cordata Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Liatris squarrosa (L.) Michx.

Liatris squarrosa (L.) Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Symphyotrichum patens var. patentissimum (Lindl.) G.L. Nesom

Symphyotrichum patens var. patentissimum (Lindl.) G.L. Nesom

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

Artist not stated in the record · 1656

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fall of Man, by Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600

The Fall of Man

Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and signed pupil agreement, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and signed pupil agreement

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder, by Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676

Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder

Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Edward Lee, by John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895

Robert Edward Lee

John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Elder's Daughter, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Elder's Daughter

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myotis lucifugus carissima

Myotis lucifugus carissima

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1914

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1658190 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 05:02 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.