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. 16 shown for “Good Night Angeline” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750

Good Night Angeline
Artist not stated in the record · 1919

Good Night
Thomas Rowlandson · November 1, 1799

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1813

Night cap
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Good Night Dear
Unidentified Artist · 1909

Good Morning To You
Thomas Rowlandson · November 1, 1799

Six on Two Horses
Wilbur F. Osler, born 1838 · 1872

The Nativity
Gerard David · early 1480s

A Comet Above Strasbourg at Night
Johann Adam Seupel · n.d.

The Farrier
Aert van der Neer · early or mid-1650s

Moonlight on the Mississippi
Currier & Ives · 1868–76

A Ship Wrecked on a Shore on a Stormy Night, with Survivors Salvaging Their Goods
Ludolf Backhuysen · 1695–1708

The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

"Bahram Gur in the Green Palace on Monday", Folio 224 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE
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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 14046 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 16:22 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.