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. 12 shown for “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Landscape with a View in a Valley
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Prince Rudolph Joseph of Colloredo-Mansfeld
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller · 1835

Portrait of Franz Jauner (Vienna 1832-1900 Vienna), Theater Director and Actor in Vienna
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller · 1800–1865

Portrait of a Woman in a Lace Bonnet, in three-quarter profile to the left
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller · mid-19th century

Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)
Kunz Lochner · dated 1549

Fire screen
Ferdinand Hundt · ca. 1736–40

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

George Washington
Achille Collas · 1830–83

The Orpheus Cup
Jan Vermeyen · 1641–42, the jeweled elements on the lid in the form of animals, amorini holding bow and quiver, and the statuettes of Orpheus and Diana, Prague, ca.1600

Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit
Ferdinand Bol · 1657

Cabinet
Maison Barbedienne · 1867

Bookstand
Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839
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. 151 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 03:37 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.