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. 23 shown for “Christian Jorhan the Elder” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Angel
Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century

Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Angel
Christian Jorhan the Elder · mid-18th century

COUPE DE L’HERMITAGE AVEC UNE PARTIE DE L’ÉLÉVATION DES BATIMENTS DU FOND DU BOSQUET RUSTIQUE
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1771

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Album of Prints: Book of Andirons and Ofèvrerie by Jean Cotelle, the Elder
Jean Cotelle, French, 1607–1676 · 1622-1676

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Elder's Daughter
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1877

Bouquet of Flowers in a Roemer
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder · ca. 1620

Suzanna and the Elders
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

The Judgment of Paris
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528

Entombment of Christ
Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1640–60

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1543

Portrait of Jan Brueghel the Elder, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1530

Sambucus Canadensis. Common, Sweet, or American Elder
Edwin Hale Lincoln, born Westminster, MA 1848-died Pittsfield, MA 1938 · 1904

Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia
Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606

Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

Saint Maurice
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop · ca. 1520–25

Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens)
Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1922

Christ Blessing the Children
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Susanna and the Elders
Artist not stated in the record · 1555

Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603
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. 84 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. 1195488 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 20:52 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.