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. 23 shown for “Petrus van Marum” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:36 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.
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Obelisk, by Petrus van Marum

Obelisk

Petrus van Marum · ca. 1700–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Tephrosia semiglabra Sond.

Tephrosia semiglabra Sond.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Christ (Ecce Homo), by Petrus Christus

Head of Christ (Ecce Homo)

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Monopsis decipiens (Sond.) Thulin

Monopsis decipiens (Sond.) Thulin

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/1/88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Petrus Christus

The Lamentation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd), by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)

Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1911

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
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), by Rachel Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)

Rachel Ruysch · 1692

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660), by Frans Hals

Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660)

Frans Hals · 1626

Public domainThe Met
The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657), by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/6/65

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
Teucrium marum L.

Teucrium marum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1933

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. 102 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. 29344 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-08 06:36 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.