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Images / art

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. 24 shown for “Alfred M. Hoffy, born ca. 1790 England-died after 1860” — 42 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:54 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Yaha-hajo. A Seminole Chief., by Alfred M. Hoffy, born ca. 1790 England-died after 1860

Yaha-hajo. A Seminole Chief.

Alfred M. Hoffy, born ca. 1790 England-died after 1860 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
TSHUSICK. AN OJIBWAY WOMAN., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

TSHUSICK. AN OJIBWAY WOMAN., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Public domainThe Met
TEH-RO-HON, AN IOWAY WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

TEH-RO-HON, AN IOWAY WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII, by John Townsend Trowbridge

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII

John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

Public domainThe Met
PADDY-CARR. CREEK INTERPRETER., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

PADDY-CARR. CREEK INTERPRETER., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Alfred Sisley · 1872

Public domainThe Met
TENS-KWAU-TA-WAW. THE PROPHET., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

TENS-KWAU-TA-WAW. THE PROPHET., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
MISTIPPEE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

MISTIPPEE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
KISH-KE-KOSH. A FOX BRAVE, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

KISH-KE-KOSH. A FOX BRAVE, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Public domainThe Met
YOHOLO-MICCO. A CREEK CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

YOHOLO-MICCO. A CREEK CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
SPRING FROG. A CHEROKEE CHIEF, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

SPRING FROG. A CHEROKEE CHIEF, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
RANT CHE WAI ME. FEMALE FLYING PIGEON., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

RANT CHE WAI ME. FEMALE FLYING PIGEON., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
MON-KA-USH-KA. A SIOUX CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

MON-KA-USH-KA. A SIOUX CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 16:54 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.

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Section 01Character index6 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.