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 “Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts
Artist not stated in the record · 1802

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 10, 1834

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Record of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 27, 1813

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1815

Saint Ansanus
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · November 12, 1839

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 24, 1831

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 15, 1835

Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1840

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1815

Saint Andrew
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1832

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 2, 1817

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 22, 1841
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. 162 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. 3292795 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 2026-09-04 12:26 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.