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. 24 shown for “Dilophus flabellatus Collins in Collins et al.” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 22:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
German Landscape with View toward a Broad Valley
Fritz Petzholdt · ca. 1829–30

Dilophus flabellatus Collins in Collins et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1899 and 1900

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1912

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Callithamnion halliae Collins in Collins et al.
Artist not stated in the record

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph
Paul Cézanne · late 1880s
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 1911

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1951

Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1951

A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · ca. 1814–15
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1905

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1939

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 2008

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt · 1912–13
Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins in Collins et al.) N.E.Aponte et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1981 to 8 Dec 1981

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Cladophora gracilis f. subflexuosa Collins in Collins et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1912

Sickle sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1275 BCE
Scinaia complanata (Collins in Collins et al.) Cotton
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/12/73
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. 88 matched · 24 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. 7462677 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-10 22:46 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.