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. 12 shown for “Daniel Cottier” — 14 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stained glass window
Daniel Cottier · ca. 1877–80

Spring
Daniel Cottier · ca. 1873–85

The Lady of Shalott stained glass window
Matthys Maris · ca. 1890–1915

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

The Toilers of the Sea
Albert Pinkham Ryder · ca. 1880–85

The House Beautiful, Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks
Clarence Cook · 1878

The House Beautiful, Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks
Clarence Cook · 1878

William Bewley Duncan
Olin Levi Warner · 1879

The Court of the Princess
Adolphe Monticelli

Changing Pasture
Anton Mauve · ca. 1880

After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

Architectural Capriccio: Grand Staircase Seen through an Archway
Francesco Guardi · 1712–93
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. 14 matched · 14 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:40 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.