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. 21 shown for “Daniel Sadeler” — 50 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wheellock Rifle
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Portrait of Pieter Brughel the Younger
Marco Sadeler · 1606

Wheellock Rifle
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Noah's Ark
Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · 1657

Wheellock Spanner with Priming Flask and Screwdriver
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller
Artist not stated in the record · 1600

Rapier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1620

The Fall of Man
Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600 · ca. 1580

Wheellock Pistol Made for Maximilian I of Bavaria (1573–1651)
Emanuel Sadeler · ca. 1600–1610

St. Cecilia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Anagram in Honor of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine and Bar
Aegidius Sadeler II · ca. 1595–1605

Two Knives
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Wheellock Rifle
Caspar Spät · ca. 1640–50

Design for Two Knife Handles
Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

Lazarus
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · before 1605

Huntsmen and Company Observing Dogs Retrieving Ducks in a Pond (The Month of April)
Pieter Stevens · ca. 1610–20

Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Minerva, or "Arma" (Allegory of the Art of War), pl. 2 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1597

Nuptiae
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

Medieval Crucifix
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590–1599
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 19678 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 00:26 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.