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 “Anna Poor Parsons” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 04:38 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.

Chair seat cover
Anna Poor Parsons · ca. 1770

Tankard
Jacobus Vander Spiegel · 1695–1700

Landscape at Saint-Ouen
Georges Seurat · 1878 or 1879

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
School of Cambiaso · late 16th century

Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar
School of Cambiaso · ca. 1550

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and a Donor
Workshop of Cambiaso · ca. 1560

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy
Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

The Holy Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1750–57

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Wine jar with early serekh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300–2960 BCE
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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 04:38 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.