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 “Hans Blarer the Younger” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sallet
Hans Blarer the Younger · ca. 1470–80

Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532–35

Chased Silver Medallion
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

Barbara Reihing
Hans Kels the Younger · 1538

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

Laux Kreler and Elisabeth Kreler
Hans Kels the Younger · 16th century

Little Crow the Younger
Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886 · 1862

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger
Unidentified (British) · ca. 1845

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
Jan Brueghel the Younger · 1630s

Album of Architectural Prints
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · ca. 1770

Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794) and Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794)
Martin van Meytens the Younger · probably early 1760s

Young Ma Has Kah
Unidentified Artist · 1838
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. 299 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1193600 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 2026-08-26 23:18 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.