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. 22 shown for “Bromus rubens L.” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1824

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer
Peter Paul Rubens · 1597

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume
Peter Paul Rubens · 1617
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1914

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca
Peter Paul Rubens · 1600–1626

Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1911 to 8 May 1911

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1911 to 8 May 1911

The Glorification of the Eucharist
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630–32
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1885

Atalanta and Meleager
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1938
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. 422 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1300991 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 16:22 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.