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. 22 shown for “Albert Pinkham Ryder” — 60 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Toilers of the Sea
Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880–85

Albert Pinkham Ryder
Louise Fitzpatrick, 1833 - 1933?

Under a Cloud
Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1900

Albert Pinkham Ryder
Alice M. Boughton, 14 May 1866 - 21 Jun 1943 · 1905

Landscape
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1897–98 (?)

Dancing Dryads
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · by 1879

The Bridge
Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880

Passing Song
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1902

The Smugglers' Cove
Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880

Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder
Unidentified · n.d.

Curfew Hour
Albert Pinkham Ryder · by 1882

In the Stable
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · before 1911

Moonlight Marine
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1870–90

Christ Appearing to Mary
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1885

The Forest of Arden
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1888–97 (?), reworked 1908 (?)

Panel for a Screen: Woman with a Deer
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876

Pasture at Evening
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1912–32

Harvest
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · n.d.

Autumn Meadows
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1912–17

Florizel and Perdita
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · by 1887

Panel for a Screen: Children Playing with a Rabbit
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876

Panel for a Screen: Children Frightened by a Rabbit
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1876
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 77609 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 13:13 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.