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 “Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Autumn Landscape, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably September 1848 or July 1849

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Woodland Stream, Late Autumn
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably October 1865

Guqin (古琴 )
Prince Lu · 1634

Grove of Trees in Autumn, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Autumn Foliage in the Wind, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Trees along Stream in Fall
William Trost Richards, born Philadelphia, PA 1833-died Newport, RI 1905 · 1861

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Wooded Stream Bank
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1860–80

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Autumn in the Hills of Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · possibly 1873-74

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Mountains, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877 - 1881

Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn
Shikibu Terutada · mid-16th century

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Landscape with Trees, Stream, and Possible Haystacks
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1885–1902

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Autumn Foliage, Vermont
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1865

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

L’Automne
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75
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. 672 matched · 24 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. 3301888 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 23:20 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.