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. 18 shown for “Jacob Backer” — 55 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:09 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.
Weeping Woman Kneeling, Seen from Behind, by Jacob Backer

Weeping Woman Kneeling, Seen from Behind

Jacob Backer · ca. 1634–38

Public domainThe Met
Teyleria koordersii (Backer) Backer

Teyleria koordersii (Backer) Backer

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Jacob Backer

Portrait of a Man

Jacob Backer · ca. 1645–50

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Woman in an Armchair, by Jacob Backer

Old Woman in an Armchair

Jacob Backer

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Digitaria eminens (Steud.) Backer

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Holy Trinity in the New Covenant, by Friedrich Sustris

The Adoration of the Holy Trinity in the New Covenant

Friedrich Sustris · 1588 or before

Public domainThe Met
Indigofera guatemalensis Moc. et al. ex Backer

Indigofera guatemalensis Moc. et al. ex Backer

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of an Old Woman, by Jacob Backer

Portrait of an Old Woman

Jacob Backer

Public domainThe Met
Anadendrum microstachyum (de Vriese & Miq.) Backer & Alderw.

Anadendrum microstachyum (de Vriese & Miq.) Backer & Alderw.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso), by Jacob de Backer

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob de Backer · ca. 1580–90

Public domainThe Met
Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit, by Ferdinand Bol

Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit

Ferdinand Bol · 1657

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman, by Jürgen Ovens

Portrait of a Woman

Jürgen Ovens · 1650

Public domainThe Met
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 17998 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:09 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.