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 “C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Event handkerchief
C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie) · 1819

In Memory of Washington
Colin Gillespie, Scottish, n.d. · 1819

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Echeveria simulans Rose
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1903

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Echeveria simulans Rose
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1905

Frog Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 550–850 CE

Echeveria simulans Rose
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1903

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

Shepherd's Idyll
François Boucher · 1768
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1982

Washerwomen
François Boucher · 1768
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

Beaker with Apes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Auguste Renoir · 1881
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981

Salome
Henri Regnault · 1870
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis
Artist not stated in the record · 1981
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. 66 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. 47527 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 09:35 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.