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 “Haff, Le Roy B.” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:39 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.

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Basket
Myer Myers · 1770–76

The Spinner
Quirijn van Brekelenkam · 1653

Scenes from the Life of Christ: Arrest of Christ, Christ in Limbo; Descent from the Cross, Preparation of Christ’s Body for His Entombment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Haystacks: Autumn
Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

The Rope Dance
Léonard Defrance

The Betrayal of Christ
Bartolomeo di Tommaso · ca. 1445–50

Beggars at a Doorway
Master of the Béguins, French or Flemish, active 1650–60 (possibly Abraham Willemsens, Flemish, active by 1627, died 1672)

Ducks Resting in Sunshine
Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1753

Cows Crossing a Ford
Jules Dupré · 1836
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. 193 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 18:39 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.