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 “Couple at a Window” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Window
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Couple at a Window
Artist not stated in the record · 1866

Jubal and Miriam
William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Textiles
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

Seated couple
"Barnes Foundation Master" · 18th–early 19th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–1820

Stained-glass window
Evert Duyckinck · ca. 1656

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Press kit for the film Black Gold
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Sav-A-Stamp postal scale
Artist not stated in the record · 1944-1946

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Two Couples and the Buffoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1535

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York
John La Farge · 1908–9

Wheeling on Riverside Drive
Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · 1886

Moses presenting the tablets of law
Valentin Bousch · 1532

Carte-de-visite portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1883

Interior with a Young Couple
Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

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

Peonies Blown in the Wind
John La Farge · ca. 1880

George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853
George Pyne, English, 1800 – 1884 · 1853
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. 1977 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1894958 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-03 10:34 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.