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. 21 shown for “Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum” — 49 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:17 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.
Lucas and Cornelius van Wael, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Lucas and Cornelius van Wael

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Lucas Vorsterman I, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland), by Wenceslaus Hollar

Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland)

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Anthony Cornelissen, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Anthony Cornelissen, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen), by Wenceslaus Hollar

Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen)

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Wencelaus Coeberger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Wencelaus Coeberger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatrvm pictorivm : in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineatæ, eiusque curâ in æs incise picturæ, archetipæ Italicæ, quas ipse ser.mus Archdux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit, by David Teniers the Younger

Theatrvm pictorivm : in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineatæ, eiusque curâ in æs incise picturæ, archetipæ Italicæ, quas ipse ser.mus Archdux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit

David Teniers the Younger · 1684

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Peter Stevens, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Peter Stevens, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, by Lucas Vorsterman I

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Lucas Vorsterman I · 1621

Public domainThe Met
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
Head of a Donor, by Albert van Ouwater

Head of a Donor

Albert van Ouwater · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jan Snellinck, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Jan Snellinck, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by British Painter

Portrait of a Woman

British Painter · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Gerard Seghers, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Gerard Seghers, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1645-1650

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

Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

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

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Josse de Momper, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Josse de Momper, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3158253 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 08:17 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.