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. 23 shown for “Theodorus van Hoytema” — 59 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:27 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.
Migratory Birds on a Moonlit Night, by Theodorus van Hoytema

Migratory Birds on a Moonlit Night

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1907

Public domainThe Met
Rabbit hunt, by Theodor Galle, ca. 1571 - 1633

Rabbit hunt

Theodor Galle, ca. 1571 - 1633 · ca. 1595

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
November, by Theodorus van Hoytema

November

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1907

Public domainThe Met
Theodorus Bailey

Theodorus Bailey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht), by Theodorus van Hoytema

Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht)

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Theodorus Bailey

Theodorus Bailey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Year (Nieuwjaar), by Theodorus van Hoytema

New Year (Nieuwjaar)

Theodorus van Hoytema · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Theodorus Bailey

Theodorus Bailey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary cuneiform inscription

Fragmentary cuneiform inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Figures Carving onto a Tree

Two Figures Carving onto a Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1758-1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief: fragments of a siege scene

Relief: fragments of a siege scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 704–681 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Civil War Naval Officers, by Unidentified Artist

Civil War Naval Officers

Unidentified Artist · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beach Scene, by Eugène Boudin

Beach Scene

Eugène Boudin · ca. 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Nasturtium officinale R. Br.

Nasturtium officinale R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1955 to 23 May 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob van Dalen (1570–1644), Called Vallensis, by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

Jacob van Dalen (1570–1644), Called Vallensis

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Sextant, by E. & G. W. Blunt

Sextant

E. & G. W. Blunt · 1856-1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anna van der Aar (born 1576/77, died after 1626), by Frans Hals

Anna van der Aar (born 1576/77, died after 1626)

Frans Hals · 1626

Public domainThe Met
Abutilon avicennae Gaertn.

Abutilon avicennae Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1850 to Aug 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660), by Frans Hals

Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660)

Frans Hals · 1626

Public domainThe Met
Orobanche pubescens d'Urv.

Orobanche pubescens d'Urv.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1851 to 15 May 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine goblet

Wine goblet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Staehelina uniflosculosa Sibth. & Sm.

Staehelina uniflosculosa Sibth. & Sm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staehelina uniflosculosa Sibth. & Sm.

Staehelina uniflosculosa Sibth. & Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1851 to 13 Aug 1851

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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29367 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-08 12:27 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.