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 “Emaciated Horse and Rider” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Emaciated Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Artillery Horses with Riders
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field
Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

Horse and rider
Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Horse and Rider master die
Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956 · c. 1958

Horse and rider
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Post Office Department patch
Artist not stated in the record · 1965-1970

Horse and cavalry rider
Artist not stated in the record

A tatar, an emaciated horse, and a dog
Artist not stated in the record · 1279-1368

Horse and female rider
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Horse and Rider
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1893-1894

Horse and female rider
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Bandbox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Plaque: side 1, Sakhmet and Nefertum on either side of the name Menkheperre (Thutmose III); side 2, rider and trampled captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Horse and Rider
Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922 · n.d.

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Acrobat Rider on Four Horses
Lawrence W. Ladd, active 1865-1895 · ca. 1880

Horse
Ottomar Anschütz · 1884

Horse and Rider
Anne Goldthwaite, born Montgomery, AL 1869-died New York City 1944 · n.d.

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Two Horses, One Mounted
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Canter; saddle rider, gray horse Smith
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886
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. 492 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. 1466779 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.