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. 24 shown for “Willem de Passe” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:16 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.
Counter box with thirty-two counters, by Willem de Passe

Counter box with thirty-two counters

Willem de Passe · 1632–49

Public domainThe Met
James I of England/ James VI of Scotland, by Unidentified Artist

James I of England/ James VI of Scotland

Unidentified Artist · 1625-40?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware, by Willem Claesz Heda

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware

Willem Claesz Heda · 1635

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
Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess, by Crispijn de Passe the Younger

Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess

Crispijn de Passe the Younger · 1635-40

Public domainThe Met
Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Benedict, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Saint Benedict

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Public domainThe Met
Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Fumaria schleicheri Soy.-Willem.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Tasmannia piperita (Hook. f.) Miers

Tasmannia piperita (Hook. f.) Miers

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man with a Mixing Bowl, by Joseph Willems

Man with a Mixing Bowl

Joseph Willems · 1736

Public domainThe Met
Jasione montana L.

Jasione montana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese musicians, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Chinese musicians

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Laocoon

Laocoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1671

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Carpotroche longifolia (Poepp.) Benth.

Carpotroche longifolia (Poepp.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1981

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
Pentace triptera Mast.

Pentace triptera Mast.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Queen Nefertari Playing Senet, by Nina de Garis Davies

Queen Nefertari Playing Senet

Nina de Garis Davies · original ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Grewia sp.

Grewia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Grewia sp.

Grewia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Grewia sp.

Grewia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1985

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. 935 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 651846 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 02:16 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.