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 “Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:01 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.
Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph, by Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century

Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph

Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Isabel Erskine, Countess of Mar

Portrait of Isabel Erskine, Countess of Mar

Artist not stated in the record · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Bartmann jug

Bartmann jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Netherlandish Painter

Portrait of a Man

Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Berlines by Janel and Two Other Coaches, by Janel, French, active 18th century

Album of Prints: Berlines by Janel and Two Other Coaches

Janel, French, active 18th century · 1760-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musk Cat, by Uto Gyoshi

Musk Cat

Uto Gyoshi · mid- to late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of Cupid, by Master of Flora

The Birth of Cupid

Master of Flora

Public domainThe Met
Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass, by Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century

Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass

Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century · 1650–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ's Descent into Hell, by Hieronymus Bosch

Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Public domainThe Met
Stove tile

Stove tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arrival in Bethlehem, by Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia serpens Kunth

Euphorbia serpens Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters

The Last Supper

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face

Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aurora, goddess of dawn, by "In Castel Durante" Painter

Aurora, goddess of dawn

"In Castel Durante" Painter · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Apollo

Design for Brooch with Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (piatto): Vulcan forging an arrow for Cupid, by the "Milan Marsyas" Painter

Dish (piatto): Vulcan forging an arrow for Cupid

the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Necklace design: Project for a rincauex to be engraved on metal

Necklace design: Project for a rincauex to be engraved on metal

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa): The satyr Silenus on an Ass, by the "Milan Marsyas" Painter

Dish (coppa): The satyr Silenus on an Ass

the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with round diamond

Design for brooch with round diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 3531 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. 2867616 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 12:01 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.