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 “Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–69

Mrs. Philip John Schuyler (Catherine van Rensselaer)
Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1795

Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–69

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

Henry Van Rensselaer
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Henry Van Rensselaer
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

Henry Van Rensselaer
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Stained-glass window
Evert Duyckinck · ca. 1656

Dryopteris x boottii Underw.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1910

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Stephen Van Rensselaer
Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · c. 1813

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Stephen Van Rensselaer
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Man in Prayer
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
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. 164 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. 3305875 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:09 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.