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. 12 shown for “Adriaen de Vries” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:11 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.

Apollo
Adriaen de Vries · ca. 1594–98

Hercules Overcoming Nereus On His Way to the Garden of the Hesperides
Adriaen de Vries · ca. 1602–1612

A Dutch Gentleman, after Adriaen de Vries
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Auricular Cartouche with the Painter Hans von Aachen, the Goldsmith Paulus van Vianen, and the Sculptor Adriaen de Vries
Jacob Lutma · ca. 1653

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1530–40

A Dutch Gentleman, after Adriaen de Vries, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1871

Man Weighing Gold
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20

Cleopatra
Jan Muller · ca. 1598

Hercules Slaying the Hydra
Jan Muller · ca. 1602

The Abduction of a Sabine Women (view from behind)
Jan Muller · ca. 1598

Mercury Abducting Psyche (lateral view Mercury's side), from a set of three views of the sculpture
Jan Muller · ca. 1593
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. 294 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:11 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.