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 “Frederick van Frijtom” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plaque with an Italinate landscape
Frederick van Frijtom · ca. 1660–92

Rip Van Winkle
Frederick MacMonnies, born New York City 1863-died New York City 1937 · 1876-1880

Plaque with a Dutch landscape, possibly a view of Kethel
Frederick van Frijtom · ca. 1660–92

John Van Buren
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Impatiens capensis Meerb.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Louis XIV
Martin van den Bogaert called Desjardins · early 18th century

Acer negundo L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Bellona
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Acer negundo L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Impatiens pallida Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Charles Frederick Mayer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–20

Carpinus caroliniana Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Van Amburgh. Outdone!
John Doyle · December 3, 1838

Hamamelis virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Girandole
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–20

Hydrangea arborescens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

Girandole
Artist not stated in the record · 1817

Impatiens pallida Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008

The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780
Currier & Ives · 1876

Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2008
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. 222 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 77853 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.