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 van Hoecke” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:33 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.

Bottle with silver mounts
Adriaen van Hoecke · 1664

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade · 1673

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

The Life of the Virgin
Adriaen Isenbrant · after 1521

Man Weighing Gold
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)
Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Adriaen van de Venne
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1649

The Pater Familias
Adriaen van Ostade · 1648
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. 248 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 18:33 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.