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 “Caracal caracal” — 60 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 13:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Caracal and Pheasant
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record

Onion Seller, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 28
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Nov 1912

Water Carrier, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 23
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1926

Two Well Cleaners, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 27
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Nov 1911

Vendor of Dry Goods, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 34
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1930

Woodcutter, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 29
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record

Vendor of Grain Sifters, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 26
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1905

Vegetable Vendor, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 24
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1930

Donkey Driver with His Herd, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 32
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Charlatan on His Stage, Holding a Snake, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 25
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Knife Grinder, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 40
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1968

Fisherman, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 37
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1660

Caracal caracal
Artist not stated in the record
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 36 matched · 36 examined · 1 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 2026-08-31 13:59 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.