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. 8 shown for “Denijs van Alsloot” — 44 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mountainous Landscape
Denijs van Alsloot · ca. 1608–11 (?)

Hyacinths, S.B. King of the BLues and S.W. Madame Van Der Hoop, Plate 79 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

Wooded Landscape with a River, Castle, and Town Beyond
Denijs van Alsloot · 1611

Stephen Van Rensselaer III
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840 · c. 1825-35

The Six Prophets of the Coming of Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · mid-16th–early 17th century

Tetradenia kaokoensis van Jaarsv. & A.E. van Wyk
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 2005

Mountainous Landscape
Tobias Verhaecht · 1576–1631

Martin Van Buren
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1830
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 29184 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 05:02 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.