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 “Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Boar Hunt
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

A Girl's Head
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century (?)

Portrait of Rubens' Wife
Unidentified (Flemish) · 17th century

Design for an Altar
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Sheperd with his Flock and a Dog
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 16th century

Concert de Famille
Artist not stated in the record · 1881

Man of Sorrows and Two Studies of Heads
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Great Lion Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Design for a Chimney Place and Study of a Nude Female Figure
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · n.d.

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Personifications of the Nile, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · n.d.

Scene from Acts of the Apostles, after Stradanus
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Landscape with a Bridge and a Village Church
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · ca. 1600 (?)

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Schelle, near Antwerp, seen from the North, with a Boat in the river Vliet
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · mid-17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Deathbed Scene
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Portrait of Rambaldo, graf von Collalto
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

Portrait of Bartholomeo Ehrenfüller(?)
Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 17th century

Glass fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century
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. 3086 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 40076 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 10:47 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.