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. 20 shown for “Jacob Neeffs” — 48 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate 37: Triumphal ship with fireworks display to the right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

Plate 23: Emperor Charles V, campaign in Africa; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

Plate 34: King Ferdinand as Neptune, seated on a whale at center, with putti atop two small fish on either side; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck
Artist not stated in the record · 1720

Plate 31: The triumph of Scipio Africanus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Jacob Riis Self-Portrait
Jacob Riis, 3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914 · c. 1901

Plate 22: Emperor Charles V, victory at Pavia; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Jacob Duché
Thomas Clarke, active late 18th century · 1779

Plate 28: Mars on horseback at center, and Romulus and Remus with the wolf at lower left; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Jacob Riis
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

Plate 29: Germany conquered by Drusus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Jacob Neeffs · 1636
John Jacob Niles
Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1931

Pompa Introitus Honori .. Ferdinandi Austriaci ... " (Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp, April 17, 1635)
Peter Paul Rubens · 1642

Jacob Jennings Brown
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · after 1815

Jacob Jennings Brown
Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts, 1814 - 1856 · c. 1825

Jacob Henry Schiff
Hermann Struck, 1876 - 1944 · 1913

Jacob Jennings Brown
Unidentified Artist · c. 1817-22

Jacob D. Cox
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1870
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 17420 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-01 19:27 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.