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. 15 shown for “Allen, E. L (Edward L.)” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 23:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Portrait of William Barton Rogers (1804-1882)
Allen, E. L (Edward L.) · 1866

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Calliandra grandifolia P.H. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1931

The Adoration of the Shepherds
L'Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti) · late 1520s

Halenia gigantea C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1978

The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1885

Landscapes
Zhang Feng · dated 1644

ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Saint John
Neroccio de' Landi · late 15th century

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–50

Tea Spoon
Joseph Edwards Jr. · ca. 1775

Tea Spoon
Joseph Edwards Jr. · ca. 1775

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801
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. 1802 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2238253 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 23:36 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.