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. 16 shown for “Lodewijk de Vadder” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 23:57 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.
The Wagonner, by Lodewijk de Vadder

The Wagonner

Lodewijk de Vadder · 1620 (?)

Public domainThe Met
A Three-Master in Heavy Sea, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

A Three-Master in Heavy Sea

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forest Landscape, by Lodewijk de Vadder

Forest Landscape

Lodewijk de Vadder · early 17th–mid 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sailing Ships Near a Cape, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

Sailing Ships Near a Cape

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ark, by Lodewijk Tieling (active ca. 1695-1700)

The Ark

Lodewijk Tieling (active ca. 1695-1700) · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Sailing Ships in a Bay, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

Sailing Ships in a Bay

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with a print and a drawing (a): Head in Profile of Prodigal Son; (b): The Wagonner (after Peter Paul Rubens) in Jean-Paul Mariette mount, by Richard Earlom

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with a print and a drawing (a): Head in Profile of Prodigal Son; (b): The Wagonner (after Peter Paul Rubens) in Jean-Paul Mariette mount

Richard Earlom · 1620–1766

Public domainThe Met
A Bay with Ships, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

A Bay with Ships

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Three Trees in the Foreground, by Lucas Achtschellinck

Landscape with Three Trees in the Foreground

Lucas Achtschellinck · 1641–99

Public domainThe Met
Forest Scene with Tree in Foreground, by Jacques d'Artois

Forest Scene with Tree in Foreground

Jacques d'Artois · 1628–86

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ornamental Frame, by Pieter Tanjé

Design for an Ornamental Frame

Pieter Tanjé · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon, by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon

Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Hendrick Goltzius

Adoration of the Shepherds

Hendrick Goltzius · 1600–1605

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top, by Pietro Jacopo Palmieri

Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top

Pietro Jacopo Palmieri · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top, by Pietro Jacopo Palmieri

Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top

Pietro Jacopo Palmieri · 1766

Public domainThe Met
The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South), by Jan van der Heyden

The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South)

Jan van der Heyden · ca. 1668–70

Public domainThe Met
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 612581 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 23:57 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.