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 “Claus de Werve” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin and Child
Claus de Werve · ca. 1415–17
Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1961

Saint Paul
Claus de Werve · ca. 1420–30

Astragalus amarus Pall.
Artist not stated in the record

Saint John the Baptist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Astragalus helmii DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 188

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Eremosparton aphyllum (Pall.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 188

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–20

Santa Claus
Oriental Printworks · late 19th century

Leda and the Swan
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1870
Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus
Artist not stated in the record · 188

Saint James the Greater
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
Euphorbia astrachanica C.A. Mey. ex Claus
Artist not stated in the record

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record

Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain
Louis Simon Boizot · 1806, modified 1818
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record

The Crucifixion
Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) · ca. 1400
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792
Zingeria biebersteiniana (Claus) P.A. Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record · 18
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. 203 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. 614049 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.