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 “Castles in Spain” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco
Artist not stated in the record · 1506–15

Castles in Spain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Helmet (Sallet)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Castles in Spain
Artist not stated in the record · 1835

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim
Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1115–20

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saint John the Baptist
Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Spain
Herzl Emanuel · ca. 1936–37

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Livery band
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Domingo Ortiz · 1797

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Bottle (Refredador)
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Bird Hunting
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Stove Tile with Saint John the Evangelist and Samson
Buda Castle Workshop · late 15th century

The Courtship of Anne Boleyn
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1846
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. 7206 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7462344 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 08:09 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.