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. 13 shown for “George M. Bruestle, born New York City 1871-died CT 1939” — 27 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Late Afternoon
George M. Bruestle, born New York City 1871-died CT 1939 · ca. 1901

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

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

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)
Auguste Renoir · 1914

The Lamentation
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

View of the Town of Alkmaar
Salomon van Ruysdael

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
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. 255 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:48 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.