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 “Fishermen drawing a net” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fishermen drawing a net
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Fishermen by the Sea, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July - August, 1858

Fishermen
Robert Blyth · November 9, 1780

Three Boats with Fishermen Setting Out a Net
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

Scene of hunters, bird catchers, and fishermen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)
Christian Krohg · 1879

Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

Roundel with Netting Quail
Augustin Hirschvogel · 16th century

Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

A Fisherman Pulling a Net
Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1774

Lobster Cove, Manchester, Massachusetts
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1869

Landscape with Fishermen
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Tuna fishing
Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1596 or after

Harbor Scene with a Grotto and Fishermen Hauling in Nets
Joseph Vernet

Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Returning Fishermen
Tang Di · dated 1342

Le Port de Mer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Fishermen with Nets
John Singer Sargent · ca. 1875

Fishermen Beaching a Boat, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

Landscape with Fishermen
Gaspard Dughet · 17th century

Fishermen on a Rock
Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · September 8, 1878

Landscape with Fishermen
Maerten de Cock · ca. 1588–1661

Sailing Boats
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1895–96
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. 131 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1787996 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 09:59 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.