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. 18 shown for “Dong Yuan” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan
Lu Kezheng · 1591/1651

Winter landscape: travelers at a ferry
Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 17th century

Landscape
Unidentified artist · 17th century

Landscape: perpendicular cliffs and rough water
Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 17th century

Mountain Landscape
Unidentified artist

Mountain Landscape
Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 16th century

Riverbank
Dong Yuan

Travelers among mountains and streams
Traditionally attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 1368-1644

Landscape with Trees in the Manner of Ni Zan (1301–1374)
Dong Qichang · ca. 1622–25

Mountain landscape
Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 1550-1644

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains
Dong Qichang · ca. 1622–25

River valley with houses and temples
Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 15th-16th century

Landscape after Dong Yuan, Juran, Ma Yuan, and Xia Gui
Li Zai · dated yiwei 乙未, 1655?

Landscapes after old masters
Dong Qichang · dated 1630

Landscapes and poems
Dong Qichang · early 17th century

Angling in the Autumn River
Sheng Zhu · ca. 1370

Illustration of Su Shi’s “Second Rhapsody on Red Cliff”
Unidentified artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Simple Retreat
Wang Meng · ca. 1370
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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 10227 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.