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 “M. Janssen” — 61 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:10 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.
Atalanta and Meleager, by Peter Paul Rubens

Atalanta and Meleager

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Christian X, by M. Janssen

Christian X

M. Janssen · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Plagiothecium latebricola Schimp.

Plagiothecium latebricola Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love, by Michele Desubleo

Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love

Michele Desubleo · 1665–75

Public domainThe Met
Dicranum viride (Sull. & Lesq.) Lindb.

Dicranum viride (Sull. & Lesq.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Ditrichum lineare (Sw.) Lindb.

Ditrichum lineare (Sw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?), by Willem Drost

Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?)

Willem Drost · 1653 or 1655

Public domainThe Met
The Life and Death of Achilles, by Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish, 1658 - 1736

The Life and Death of Achilles

Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish, 1658 - 1736 · ca. 1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child, by Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Virgin and Child

Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter · ca. 1495–1500

Public domainThe Met
Groundplan of the Church of Saint John in ’s-Hertogenbosch, by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Groundplan of the Church of Saint John in ’s-Hertogenbosch

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, by Gerard David

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Interior of the Sint-Pieterskerk, 's-Hertogenbosch, by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Interior of the Sint-Pieterskerk, 's-Hertogenbosch

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Noblewoman, Probably Isabella of Portugal (1397–1472), by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Noblewoman, Probably Isabella of Portugal (1397–1472)

Netherlandish Painter

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. 21 matched · 21 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. 1179469 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 05:10 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.