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 “Cabinet card of an unidentified member of the Vass family” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Cabinet card of an unidentified member of the Vass family
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1917

Cabinet
Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Cabinet card of an unidentified girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1905

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Cabinet card of an unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1911

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Cabinet card of an unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1896

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1889

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Cabinet card of an unidentified girl
Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1893

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Cabinet card of an unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1890-1896
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. 200 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. 3015181 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 2026-09-07 09:36 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.