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. 15 shown for “Reinier Vinkeles” — 43 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 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.
View of the Church of Passy, near Paris, by Reinier Vinkeles

View of the Church of Passy, near Paris

Reinier Vinkeles · 1770

Public domainThe Met
Allegory on Good Government

Allegory on Good Government

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Drawing Academy at the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam, by Reinier Vinkeles

The Drawing Academy at the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam

Reinier Vinkeles · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Trial Scene, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Trial Scene

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trade Card, by Reinier Vinkeles

Trade Card

Reinier Vinkeles · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Farewell of the King to His Confessor, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Farewell of the King to His Confessor

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis' Farewell to His Family, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Louis' Farewell to His Family

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Separation of the King and His Family, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Separation of the King and His Family

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Antoinette's Farewell to Her Son, by Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822

Marie Antoinette's Farewell to Her Son

Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sparganium emersum var. multipedunculatum (Morong) Reveal

Sparganium emersum var. multipedunculatum (Morong) Reveal

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis unioloides (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.

Eragrostis unioloides (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis cumingii Steud.

Eragrostis cumingii Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/6/24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themeda arguens (L.) Hack.

Themeda arguens (L.) Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1920

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 82 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 10:23 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.