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. 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

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.
Plate 37: Triumphal ship with fireworks display to the right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

Plate 37: Triumphal ship with fireworks display to the right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 23: Emperor Charles V, campaign in Africa; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

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

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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...', by Jacob Neeffs

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

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck

Artist not stated in the record · 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 31: The triumph of Scipio Africanus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

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

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Riis Self-Portrait, by Jacob Riis, 3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914

Jacob Riis Self-Portrait

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 22: Emperor Charles V, victory at Pavia; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

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

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Duché, by Thomas Clarke, active late 18th century

Jacob Duché

Thomas Clarke, active late 18th century · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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...', by Jacob Neeffs

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

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Riis, by Unidentified Artist

Jacob Riis

Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 29: Germany conquered by Drusus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

Plate 29: Germany conquered by Drusus; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
John Jacob Niles, by Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934

John Jacob Niles

Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pompa Introitus Honori .. Ferdinandi Austriaci ... " (Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp, April 17, 1635), by Peter Paul Rubens

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

Peter Paul Rubens · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Jennings Brown, by John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

Jacob Jennings Brown

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Jennings Brown, by Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts, 1814 - 1856

Jacob Jennings Brown

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Henry Schiff, by Hermann Struck, 1876 - 1944

Jacob Henry Schiff

Hermann Struck, 1876 - 1944 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Jennings Brown, by Unidentified Artist

Jacob Jennings Brown

Unidentified Artist · c. 1817-22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob D. Cox, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Jacob D. Cox

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1870

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. 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.