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 Pietersz Buytewech” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:03 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 Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · 1616

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
The Holy Family Resting, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The Holy Family Resting

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. J.J. Green, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mrs. J.J. Green

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Frontispiece, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Study for a Frontispiece

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · 1621

Public domainThe Met
Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1929

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
Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
English Nobleman, from Noblemen of Different Countries, Plate 3, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

English Nobleman, from Noblemen of Different Countries, Plate 3

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Herd of Sheep Near the Water, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 8, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Herd of Sheep Near the Water, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 8

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
Mary Magdalen in the wilderness, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Mary Magdalen in the wilderness

Willem Pietersz Buytewech · ca. 1613–14

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
The Sower, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 5, by Willem Pietersz Buytewech

The Sower, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 5

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
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. 29 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. 4008 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 22:03 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.