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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. Search a work, an artist, or a subject to start.
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.
Bateaux de sable à quai (Sand Barges Moored at the Quay), Arles
Vincent Van Gogh, The Netherlands, active in France, 1853 – 1890 · August 14, 1888
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, vase shape, pin
Monet, jewelers · ca.1830-1920
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu
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. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.Ready - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.Ready
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.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.