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 “Arnold van Westerhout” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Paul preaching at center, standing in a crowd in a columned interior, pointing upwards toward putti who hold a scroll
Arnold van Westerhout · 1681–1725

Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700
Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Arnold van Westerhout · 1650–1700

Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700
Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

Sinorix being carried from the temple after being poisioned
Arnold van Westerhout · 1650–1700

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs
Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1687–1700

Self portait as an artist, holding a drawing board and implement
Pietro Testa · ca. 1645

Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: front view
Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1700

Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy
Pietro Testa · 1648–50

Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689)
Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left
Pietro Testa · 1648

Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine: rear view
Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1700

Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial
Guillaume Courtois · 1650–60

Johannes Van Buyten
Westerhout, Arnaldo Van · 1674

Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial
Guillaume Courtois · 1650–60

Malus floribunda Siebold ex Van Houtte
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1920

The Death of St. Joseph
Robert van Audenaerde

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk
Artist not stated in the record

Marriage of the Virgin
Robert van Audenaerde

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1913

Flight into Egypt
Robert van Audenaerde
Pluto medius zuliensis
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1976

The suicide of the philosopher Cato, who lies on his bed pulling out his innards watched by horrified disciples
Pietro Testa · 1648
Pluto incarinatus
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1976
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. 173 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. 41313 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 13:50 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.