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. 17 shown for “Willem Jansz Blaeu” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:03 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 Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Massacre of the Innocents, by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, 1550 - 1612

Massacre of the Innocents

Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch, 1550 - 1612 · ca. 1585-86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celestial globe, by Willem Jansz Blaeu

Celestial globe

Willem Jansz Blaeu · after 1621

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rhinoceros, by Albrecht Dürer

The Rhinoceros

Albrecht Dürer · after 1620

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd), by Claes Jansz. Visscher

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)

Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Musical Party, by Gabriël Metsu

A Musical Party

Gabriël Metsu · 1659

Public domainThe Met
Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula..., by Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz

Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula...

Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz · ca 1666

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titlepage, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 1, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Titlepage, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 1

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Bathsheba Combing Her Hair, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Bathsheba Combing Her Hair

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
The Charcoal-Burner, from "Verscheyden Landtschapjes" (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 9, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The Charcoal-Burner, from "Verscheyden Landtschapjes" (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 9

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Het Huys te Kleef bij Haarlem, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 3, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Het Huys te Kleef bij Haarlem, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 3

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Two Plank Hedges, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 6, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Two Plank Hedges, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 6

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
The House with the Stepped Gable, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 7, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The House with the Stepped Gable, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 7

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
The Road at the Edge of the Forest, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 4, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The Road at the Edge of the Forest, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 4

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 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. 4022 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:03 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.