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. 17 shown for “Justus Sustermans” — 48 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 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.
Justus Sustermans, from "The Iconography", by Anthony van Dyck

Justus Sustermans, from "The Iconography"

Anthony van Dyck · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise, by Jean Morin

Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise

Jean Morin

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise, by Jean Morin

Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise

Jean Morin

Public domainThe Met
Reverend Justus Henry Christian Helmuth, by John Eckstein, 1736 - 1817

Reverend Justus Henry Christian Helmuth

John Eckstein, 1736 - 1817 · c. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando II de' Medici (1610–1670) as a Boy, by Justus Sustermans

Ferdinando II de' Medici (1610–1670) as a Boy

Justus Sustermans

Public domainThe Met
Nathanael Greene, by Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802

Nathanael Greene

Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Florentine Lady, by Justus Sustermans

Portrait of a Florentine Lady

Justus Sustermans · after 1620

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Franklin, by Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802

Benjamin Franklin

Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1778-84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosimo II de' Medici (1590–1621), Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Justus Sustermans

Cosimo II de' Medici (1590–1621), Grand Duke of Tuscany

Justus Sustermans · 1597–1681

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802

George Washington

Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1775-90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cardinal's Procession, by Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano)

A Cardinal's Procession

Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano) · 1621

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jules Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Portrait of Jules Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1742–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Franklin, by Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802

Benjamin Franklin

Justus Chevillet, 1729 - 1802 · c. 1778-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman wearing a top hat and a fur stole, by Justus C. Swan, American, 1849 - 1928

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman wearing a top hat and a fur stole

Justus C. Swan, American, 1849 - 1928 · ca. 1895

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 372 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 09:54 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.