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 “Group of Men in a Boat” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Group of Men in a Boat
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Figure and Architectural Sketches with a Boat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Beach Scene with People and Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1885 B.C.

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Model Sporting Boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

A Landscape
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1850–1860

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Fishermen in Landscape
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1770–1786

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Whale Hunt by the Emperor Claudius in the harbour at Ostia, pl. 19 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618 · 1596 or after

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Mannerist Group · ca. 460 BCE

Beach with Boats and People, Cullercoats, England
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

Travelling Boat being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

A Hurricane, Growing Hemp, On Abaco Island, A Flower Seller, Conch Divers, from The Century Magazine, February 1887
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1887

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Kittos Group · ca. 366/365 BCE

A Peddler, A Nassau Gateway, Shark-Fishing--Nassau Bar, from The Century Magazine, February 1887
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1887

Terracotta stamnos (jar)
Group of Polygnotos · ca. 440 BCE

Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Group
Derby Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1715–18
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. 49132 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 7483787 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 11:15 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.