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. 14 shown for “Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572” — 42 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:51 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 Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Matthew the Evangelist, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Matthew the Evangelist

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, by Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint John the Evangelist, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint John the Evangelist

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Summer, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Summer

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Luke the Evangelist, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Luke the Evangelist

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Mark the Evangelist, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Mark the Evangelist

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Autumn, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Autumn

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Spring, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Spring

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Winter, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Winter

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, by Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, by Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strapwork Grotesque with Scene from Ovid, by Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572

Strapwork Grotesque with Scene from Ovid

Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, 1530 - 1572 · 1566

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 44604 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-10 17:51 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.