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 “Arthur Pond” — 23 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:17 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.

Self-Portrait
Arthur Pond · 1739

Il Gobbo dei Carracci
Arthur Pond · 1736

Cavalry advancing to the charge, with a central figure on horseback raising a sword
Arthur Pond · 1735

Venus Surrounded by Putti
Arthur Pond · ca. 1735

A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters, Being Facsimiles of Their Respective Performances, Chiefly by Arthur Pond, & Charles Knapton, London 1734 &c,
Arthur Pond · 1732–69

Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Seascape with Bacchus and Ariadne
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1742

Landscape
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain · 1743

Coast View with the Embarkation of Carlo and Ubaldo
Pierre Charles Canot · 1744

The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters)
Andrea Scacciati · ca. 1750–60

Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond
Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 582 AH/1186 CE

Martydom of St. Lawrence
Raymond de La Fage
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 16:17 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.