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. 12 shown for “George Wright, English, born Leeds, England 1860-died 1942” — 21 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Watch in the form of a Lesser George
Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600

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

Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1783

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Man in a Turban
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Man with a Magnifying Glass
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s

Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660
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. 21 matched · 21 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 20:15 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.