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. 13 shown for “Johan Wierix, Flemish, 1549 - 1618” — 41 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:35 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.
Watch, by W.A.

Watch

W.A. · 1571

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · 1602

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The king has his servants invite guests to the wedding party, from the series 'Parable of the Wedding Feast', by Johan Wierix, Flemish, 1549 - 1618

The king has his servants invite guests to the wedding party, from the series 'Parable of the Wedding Feast'

Johan Wierix, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Military Trophy, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Military Trophy

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1594

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci", by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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
The Crucifixion, by Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603

The Crucifixion

Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4681 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 01:35 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.