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. 12 shown for “Pieter de Molijn” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

E. Tow O Koam Coning van de Rivier Volkeren, by Pieter Schenk, 1660 - 1711

E. Tow O Koam Coning van de Rivier Volkeren

Pieter Schenk, 1660 - 1711 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mme la Marquise de Belfons, by Pieter Schenk, German, 1660-1711

Mme la Marquise de Belfons

Pieter Schenk, German, 1660-1711 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus, Triton, and Sea Nymphs

Venus, Triton, and Sea Nymphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket], by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699

Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger, by Marco Sadeler

Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger

Marco Sadeler · 1606

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis and Saint Clara Adoring the Infant Jesus, by Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650

Saint Francis and Saint Clara Adoring the Infant Jesus

Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650 · ca. 1630–1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horsfieldia inflexa W.J. de Wilde

Horsfieldia inflexa W.J. de Wilde

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gynostemma papuanum W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes

Gynostemma papuanum W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jan Snellinx, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan Snellinx, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1636

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
Dacrycarpus compactus (Wasscher) de Laub.

Dacrycarpus compactus (Wasscher) de Laub.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Judgment, by Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658

The Last Judgment

Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish, 1629-1658 · ca. 1650

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 613886 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 15:54 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.