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 “Anonymous” — 24 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.

Poster for a performance by Henri Huerta
Anonymous · 1871

Hidden silhouette of Napoleon visiting his tomb; vase of flowers
Anonymous · 1821–1900

Reverse Copy of La Promenade (The Walk), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set
Anonymous · 17th century

Reverse Copy of Le Mendiant a la Tête Découverte et aux Pieds Nus (The Beggar with Bare Head and Feet), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)
Anonymous · 17th century

Anonymous portrait
Francesco Bartolozzi · ca. 1794–1802

Anonymous portrait
Francesco Bartolozzi · ca. 1794–1802

Blue sheet with two borders with a white floral and lace pattern
Anonymous · late 18th–mid-19th century

Soldier Resting his Head on his Elbow
Giuseppe Maria Crespi · 18th century (?)

Standing Youth Leaning on a Long Staff (recto); Seated Man (verso)
Domenico Veneziano · 1440–60

Standing Youth Holding a Club (recto); Temptation of Adam and Eve (verso)
Domenico Veneziano · 1440–60

Valentine
Anonymous · 1819

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526
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. 11753 matched · 24 examined · 7 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.