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 “Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:44 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 Outer Harbor of Brest
Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe · 1773

Snuffbox with scene of harvesting fruit
Johann Wilhelm Keibel · ca. 1820

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Snuffbox with theatrical scenes of a rope dancer and a puppet show
Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1778–79

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes
Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Snuffbox with four maritime scenes; Louis XIV crossing the Rhine in 1672
Adrien Jean Maximilien Vachette · 1798–1838

Madame Roulin and Her Baby
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Snuffbox with views at the château of Chanteloup
Pierre-François Delafons · 1748/49, miniatures 1767

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Self-Portrait
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
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. 287 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 22:44 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.