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 “Column Surround with Pensive Woman” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Column Surround with Pensive Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1880

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Mannerist Group · ca. 460 BCE

Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Memorial to the Napoleonic Naval Heroes Admiral Federico Carlos de Gravina and Rear-Admiral Don Antonio Escaño, Defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · after 1805

Terracotta stamnos (jar)
Barclay Painter · ca. 450–440 BCE

Drawing
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

The Cellier Altarpiece
Jean Bellegambe · 1511–12

Portrait of Madame Lambert (Marie de Laubespine)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Design for a Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Clock
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Christ in the Wilderness
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · ca. 1515–20

Title Page
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

Central Park, New York, Feeding the Swans
George Schlegel, New York · 1874

Radiator
Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842 · mid-19th century
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. 30 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. 275784 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 23:50 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.