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 van der Straet, called Stradanus” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 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.
Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus

Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Fountain of Neptune, Florence

Fountain of Neptune, Florence

Artist not stated in the record · 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Frontispiece with the Medici Arms, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Design for a Frontispiece with the Medici Arms

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Workshop of an Engraver [Sculptura in Aes], plate 19 from Nova Reperta, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

The Workshop of an Engraver [Sculptura in Aes], plate 19 from Nova Reperta

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Temperance, plate 7 of "VII Virtutim...Imagines", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Temperance, plate 7 of "VII Virtutim...Imagines"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venationes ferarum avium, piscium..., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Venationes ferarum avium, piscium...

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Justice (Iustitia), plate 5 from the "Virtutum theologicarum et cardinalium", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Justice (Iustitia), plate 5 from the "Virtutum theologicarum et cardinalium"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Vanitas

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · mid-16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinandes Magalanes Lusitanus, plate 4 from "Americae Retectio", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Ferdinandes Magalanes Lusitanus, plate 4 from "Americae Retectio"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1580s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Six Prophets of the Coming of Christ, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

The Six Prophets of the Coming of Christ

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · mid-16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Practitioners of the Visual Arts (upper half of torn sheet)

The Practitioners of the Visual Arts (upper half of torn sheet)

Artist not stated in the record · 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Party, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

A Hunting Party

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · ca. 1555–65

Public domainThe Met
A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lazarus, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Lazarus

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · before 1605

Public domainThe Met
A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue), by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue)

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · 1570 or before

Public domainThe Met
A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of America, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Allegory of America

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · ca. 1587–89

Public domainThe Met
The Ostrich Hunt, by Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612

The Ostrich Hunt

Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612 · ca. 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Production of Silk, plate 8, by Jan Collaert I

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Production of Silk, plate 8

Jan Collaert I · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

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. 286 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. 548656 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 02:32 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.