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 “Gillis van Breen” — 64 records examined, 13 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.
The Commandment to Love One Another
Gillis van Breen · 1599

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo (Greene) Gillis
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1914

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Phoradendron liga (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Eichler
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1907

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Manilkara staminodella Gilly
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 2007

Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration
Gillis van Tilborgh

Aloysia gratissima (Gillies & Hook.) Tronc.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 2005

Wooded Landscape
Gillis van Coninxloo · 17th century

Title Page, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1633–1641
![Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e], by Pieter Coecke van Aelst](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP291970.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e]
Pieter Coecke van Aelst · 1550

Anabaena sphaerica Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1955

Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen
Sebastiano Serlio · 1546, 1549, 1553
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1950

View of St. John Lateran, Rome
Gillis van Coninxloo · after 1589
Laurencia intricata J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1949

Landscape
Gillis van Coninxloo · late 16th, early 17th century
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1948

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as her Most Precious Ornaments
Gillis Mostaert the Elder · mid-16th–late 16th century
Gelidium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · -- Jul ----

Serlio's five books on architecture
Sebastiano Serlio · 1550, 1553
Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1949

Allegory of abundance: Ceres holding a cornucopia at right and Pomona at left feeding fruit to a monkey
Theodor van Kessel · ca. 1652–60
Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1950
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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 32388 matched · 40 examined · 11 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.