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. 22 shown for “Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink” — 50 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · ca. 1601

Jar and lid
De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) · 1673–1700

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1599

Gerrit Smith
Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1854

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Gerrit Smith
William Kurtz, 1834 - 1904 · c. 1870

St. John the Baptist Preaching
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Gerrit Smith
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1862

St. Cecilia, Playing the Organ
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Gerrit Boon
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · 1593

Gerrit Smith
Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 26 Oct 1801 - 14 Oct 1874 · c. 1854

Faith, Hope and Charity
Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink · ca. 1593

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Jan Muller · 1593

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Sinfulness of Mankind
Gerrit Pietersz · 1591–1650

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Musical Party in the Open Air
Gerrit Pietersz · 1591–1650

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Gerrit Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11982 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-29 07:11 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.