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 van Vliet” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:58 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.

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Hendrick van Vliet · 1660

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

Roman Charity
Hendrick ter Brugghen · 1622

A Kitchen
Hendrick Sorgh · ca. 1643

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers"
Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

Miniature chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

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

Portrait of Hendrick van Thulden
Jacobus Coelemans · 1690–1709

The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

Portrait of a Man, after Rembrandt
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet · 1633

Charles II entering The Hague in a carriage with the Mauritshuis on the right, from "Verhael van de Reys van Carel II, Coning van Groot-Brittannië, in Hollandt van 25 Mey tot 2 Junij 1660"
Pieter Philippe · 1660
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. 279 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 19:58 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.