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 “Pieter Feddes van Harlingen” — 46 records examined, 14 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 Four Evangelists, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

The Four Evangelists

Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde

Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luke, from The Four Evangelists, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

Luke, from The Four Evangelists

Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde

Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1636

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mark, from The Four Evangelists, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

Mark, from The Four Evangelists

Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Philip II, by Pieter Van Gunst, c. 1667 - 1724

Philip II

Pieter Van Gunst, c. 1667 - 1724 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John, from The Four Evangelists, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

John, from The Four Evangelists

Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Louis van Boisot

Portrait of Louis van Boisot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral Procession of William Lodewijk count of Nassau, July 13, 1620 in Leeuwarden, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

Funeral Procession of William Lodewijk count of Nassau, July 13, 1620 in Leeuwarden

Pieter Feddes van Harlingen · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Dicranostigma leptopodum (Maxim.) Fedde

Dicranostigma leptopodum (Maxim.) Fedde

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dactylicapnos lichiangensis (Fedde) Hand.-Mazz.

Dactylicapnos lichiangensis (Fedde) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corydalis curviflora var. rosthornii Fedde

Corydalis curviflora var. rosthornii Fedde

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corydalis curviflora var. rosthornii Fedde

Corydalis curviflora var. rosthornii Fedde

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self Portrait of Rembrandt

Self Portrait of Rembrandt

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William II, by Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760

William II

Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760 · 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Frederick, by Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760

Henry Frederick

Pieter Tanje, 1706 - 1760 · 1749

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 31159 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-01 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.