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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap
Govert Flinck · 1645

A Bearded Man Wearing a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp
Artist not stated in the record · 1637

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

Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case
Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s

Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1637

Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol?)
Artist not stated in the record · 1637

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Photographic print of two couples standing outdoors
Unidentified · ca. 1921

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

A Peasant in a High Cap, Standing Leaning on a Stick
Artist not stated in the record · 1639

Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Study of a Man's Head
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

Portrait of a Man
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume
Artist not stated in the record · 1638

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Window case and half of a figure of a Turk
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

Hexagonal Casket
North Italian Workshop · early 15th century

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet
Ebenezer Mack, American · ca. 1790 (portrait miniature); ca. 1830 (bracelet)

Bearded Man
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1647

Metal Figurine Excavated in Anacostia
Artist not stated in the record · After 1867

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

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
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.