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 “A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:04 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.
Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap, by Govert Flinck

Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap

Govert Flinck · 1645

Public domainThe Met
A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp

A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · 1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case, by Unidentified

Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case

Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1637

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap

Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol?)

Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol?)

Artist not stated in the record · 1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of two couples standing outdoors, by Unidentified

Photographic print of two couples standing outdoors

Unidentified · ca. 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
A Peasant in a High Cap, Standing Leaning on a Stick

A Peasant in a High Cap, Standing Leaning on a Stick

Artist not stated in the record · 1639

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings

Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Man's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Man's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Dieric Bouts

Portrait of a Man

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume

Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume

Artist not stated in the record · 1638

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Window case and half of a figure of a Turk, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Window case and half of a figure of a Turk

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Casket, by North Italian Workshop

Hexagonal Casket

North Italian Workshop · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait miniature set on a bracelet, by Ebenezer Mack, American

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet

Ebenezer Mack, American · ca. 1790 (portrait miniature); ca. 1830 (bracelet)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bearded Man, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Bearded Man

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1647

Public domainThe Met
Metal Figurine Excavated in Anacostia

Metal Figurine Excavated in Anacostia

Artist not stated in the record · After 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a man with a beard wearing a dark colored suit and vest

Photograph of a man with a beard wearing a dark colored suit and vest

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century - early 20th century

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. 70 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1901526 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-27 10:04 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.