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. 17 shown for “Freeman (late Oswald Allen)” — 58 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons
Bernardo Daddi

Portrait of George Bennett (1804-1893)
Freeman (late Oswald Allen) · 1875

Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–75

Portrait of Mrs. George Bennett
Freeman (late Oswald Allen) · 1873

The Three Ages of Humans
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Trillium cuneatum Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1966

Sr. George Bridges Rodney, Rear Admiral of the Blue
Anonymous, British, late 18th century · May 9, 1780

Trillium cuneatum Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1966

Madonna and Child
Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Possibly James Freeman
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

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

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

The Burg Weiler Altar Triptych (Altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and Saints)
Master of the Burg Weiler Altarpiece · ca. 1470

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 57556 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 06:17 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.