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. 23 shown for “Dapper Dan, American, born 1945” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Brown leather pants designed by Dapper Dan for Rakim
Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · 2006

General Washington
Benoit Louis Prevost · 1781

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo
Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · ca. 1990

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68
![Dan Rice. The Celebrated Shaksperian [sic] Clown, by G. & W. Endicott](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNMAH-RWS2018-00073.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Dan Rice. The Celebrated Shaksperian [sic] Clown
G. & W. Endicott · 1846-1849

Mezzetin
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Allee dans le Parc
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1906

Classical Landscape with Figures
Henri Mauperché

Tombeaux Dans la Vallee de Josaphat, Jerusalem
T. Deshayes, French, n.d. · n.d.

Departure of the Amazons
Claude Déruet · 1620s

Cathedral, Panama
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Solola, Guatemala
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

Triumph of the Amazons
Claude Déruet · 1620s

Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

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

Amapala, Honduras
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Cathedral, Guatemala
Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877
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 · 8 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. 1070858 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 2026-09-02 19:20 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.