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 “John Van Noordt, n.d.” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:46 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.
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Near Rome, by John Van Noordt, n.d.

Near Rome

John Van Noordt, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Louis XVII, King of France and Navarre, by Nicolaus-Innocentius-Wilhelm-Clemens van Heideloff, German, born Stuttgart, Germany 1761-died The Hague, Netherlands 1837

Louis XVII, King of France and Navarre

Nicolaus-Innocentius-Wilhelm-Clemens van Heideloff, German, born Stuttgart, Germany 1761-died The Hague, Netherlands 1837 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Phacelia integrifolia var. texana (J.W. Voss) N.D. Atwood

Phacelia integrifolia var. texana (J.W. Voss) N.D. Atwood

Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Winterlandschaft, by C. Gunkel, n.d.

Winterlandschaft

C. Gunkel, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Public domainThe Met
John Peter Van Ness, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Peter Van Ness

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, by Anthony van Dyck

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo

Anthony van Dyck · 1624

Public domainThe Met
Martin Van Buren, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

Martin Van Buren

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes, by Vincent van Gogh

Shoes

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Van Ness Mansion, by Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, born Watsonville, CA 1890-died Los Angeles County, CA 1944

Van Ness Mansion

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, born Watsonville, CA 1890-died Los Angeles County, CA 1944 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor, by Joos van Cleve

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Judith Langley, by Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands ca. 1570-died The Hague, Netherlands 1657

Judith Langley

Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands ca. 1570-died The Hague, Netherlands 1657 · n.d.

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
A Glimpse of the Ocean, by Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, born Alkmaar, Netherlands 1829-died Paris, France 1904

A Glimpse of the Ocean

Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, born Alkmaar, Netherlands 1829-died Paris, France 1904 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Edward Laurence, Esq., by Gerard Van Soest, German, born Westphalia 1637-died London, England 1681

Edward Laurence, Esq.

Gerard Van Soest, German, born Westphalia 1637-died London, England 1681 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
John Van Buren

John Van Buren

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Van Wyck Brooks, by John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922

Van Wyck Brooks

John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922 · 1909

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. 794 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. 293534 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 2026-09-05 11:46 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.