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 “Barent Fabritius” — 30 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael
Barent Fabritius · 1658
Pantoneura fabriciana (Lyngb.) M.J. Wynne
Artist not stated in the record · 1841

Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
Willem Drost

Cuniculus paca
Artist not stated in the record

Young Woman with a Red Necklace
Rembrandt · ca. 1645

Festuca laxa Host
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1911

Rembrandt's Son Titus (1641–1668)
Rembrandt

Rumex acetosa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1977

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Artist not stated in the record · 1888

Erignathus barbatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1888

Pusa hispida
Artist not stated in the record · 1888

Soldat de Crimée
Harriet Blackstone, born New Hartford, NY 1864-died New York City 1939 · 1907
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26 matched · 26 examined · 12 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 2026-08-30 05:49 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.