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 “Frans Francken II” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Adoration of the Magi
Frans Francken II · n.d.

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1645-1650

Allegory of the Death of a Religious Man
Frans Francken II · early 17th century

Portrait of Frans Francken, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1641

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1638

Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Portrait of Adam-Frans van der Meulen
Artist not stated in the record · 1687

Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals · early 1650s

Juglans microcarpa Berland. in Berland. & Chovell
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1901

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650)
Frans Hals · ca. 1636–38

Head of a man in the style of Frans Hals
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

Interior of a Gothic Church by Day
Pieter Neeffs the Elder · probably ca. 1635–40

Interior of a Gothic Church at Night
Pieter Neeffs the Elder · probably ca. 1635–40

Paulus Verschuur (1606–1667)
Frans Hals · 1643

Interior of a Gothic Church at Night
Pieter Neeffs the Younger · ca. 1660

Margherita Gonzaga (1591–1632), Princess of Mantua
Frans Pourbus the Younger

Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem (Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude ende nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kroniken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd ende bevestigd)
Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1628
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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 34525 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 2026-09-02 06:44 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.