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 “Charles David” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 06:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

David Ramsay
Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860 · c. 1835

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

D. Hayes Agnew
Charles Robson, c. 1840 - 9 Oct 1881 · c. 1876

Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

David Wiley
Charles Peale Polk, 17 Mar 1767 - 6 May 1822 · c. 1801

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

David Henshaw
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1843

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

David Ramsay
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1771

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Civil War Naval Officers
Unidentified Artist · c. 1862

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, David Copperfield and Traddles, from "David Copperfield"
Charles Dana Gibson, born Roxbury, MA 1867-died New York City 1944 · 1897-1905

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

David Rittenhouse
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · 1796

Plate with the Arming of David
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

David Rittenhouse
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1796

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

David Reedy
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1798

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

David Glasgow Farragut
Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1863

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

David Vann - A Cherokee Chief
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1843
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. 1604 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 212245 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 06:20 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.