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 “B. Altman and Company, 1865 - 1989” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:39 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.

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510

The Supper at Emmaus
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
Gerard David · ca. 1500
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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 08:39 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.