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 “Portrait of Jacob van Vien, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:38 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.
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
Portrait of Jacob van Vien, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Portrait of Jacob van Vien, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York", by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

The Holy Family, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dutch Burgomaster, after Bartholomeus van der Helst, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York", by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

A Dutch Burgomaster, after Bartholomeus van der Helst, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Portrait of a Young Woman, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Shepherds, by Jacob Jordaens

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Young Girl, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Head of a Young Girl, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Title Page, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Repose, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York", by Nicolaes Berchem the Younger, Dutch, 1649 - 1672

Repose, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Nicolaes Berchem the Younger, Dutch, 1649 - 1672 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Hille Bobbe, the Sorceress , from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York "

Hille Bobbe, the Sorceress , from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York "

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Dutch Cottage, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Interior of a Dutch Cottage, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Irises, by Vincent van Gogh

Irises

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Medallion Portraot of Joseph-Marie Vien

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

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. 139 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. 2992061 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 11:38 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.