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. 17 shown for “Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822” — 29 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Farewell of the King to His Confessor
Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Separation of the King and His Family
Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Trial Scene
Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Louis' Farewell to His Family
Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Marie Antoinette's Farewell to Her Son
Daniel Vrydag, Dutch, born The Hague, Netherlands 1765-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1822 · n.d.

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

The Preaching of John the Baptist
Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 12:46 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.