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. 11 shown for “Adam Buck” — 12 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emma (1765–1815), Lady Hamilton
Adam Buck · 1804

Venus, or the Bath
Joseph Constantine Stadler · 1822 or earlier
![Nude Reclining on Curtained Bed [Emma Hamilton (?)], by Adam Buck](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FMM92540.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Nude Reclining on Curtained Bed [Emma Hamilton (?)]
Adam Buck · November 1, 1797

Embroidered Sampler
Lydia Headly · ca. 1805

Cornemuse
Joseph Bechonnet · 19th century

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

A Triumvirate: The Daft Highland Laird (James Robertson), John Dhu or Dow (a member of the Town Guard), and Jamie Duff (an Idiot)
John Kay · 1784

Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)
Capodimonte Painter · ca. 320–310 BCE

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:34 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.