OpenTwo 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 “Photograph portrait of an unidentified man” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 80–100 CE
Photograph portrait of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Photograph of an unidentified man in front of car
Unidentified · ca. 1935
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Photographic postcard featuring headshot of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930
Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s
Brooch with a portrait of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1895
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
Photograph of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1920
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75
Photograph of an unidentified Buffalo Soldier with a mustache
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE
Tintype of a portrait of man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Faded photograph of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Portrait of an Old Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1475
Cabinet card of an unidentified man photographed by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535
Cabinet card of an unidentified man photographed by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820
Cabinet card with printed vignette of an unidentified man by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
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. 4308 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2917160 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 2026-09-07 11:06 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.