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 “Hendrick ter Brugghen” — 14 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:05 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.

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Roman Charity
Hendrick ter Brugghen · 1622

St. Philip, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"
Hendrick Goltzius · ca. 1589

Beaker with three scenes from the Story of Tobit
Jan van de Velde II · 1653, with later inscriptions

Woman Playing a Guitar
Simon Vouet · ca. 1618

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
Daniël Mijtens · 1629

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South)
Jan van der Heyden · ca. 1668–70

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 14 matched · 14 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:05 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.