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. 21 shown for “Herman Saftleven II” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fantasy Rhine Landscape
Herman Saftleven II · 1650

Le Porcher
Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685

Peasant with Child
Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Landscape
Herman Saftleven, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1609-died Utrecht, Netherlands 1685 · n.d.

River Landscape with Mountains
Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Pilot Chute from World War II
Pacific Parachute Company, American, 1942 - 1944 · ca. 1942

Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)
Herman Saftleven II · 1680

Vestibule Corner ''Schleissheim," Prince Regent Luitpold's Palace
Herman Hartwich, born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926 · 1880

Study of a Seated Peasant Woman, Viewed from Behind and to the Left
Herman Saftleven II · 1629–85

Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1836

Study of Three Fritillaries
Herman Saftleven II · 1683

Herman Vogel
Unidentified Artist · c. 1872

Travelers in a Forest
Herman Saftleven II · 1647

Callilepis corymbosa P.P.J. Herman & Koek.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2002

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654
Herman Saftleven II · 17th century

Herman Henry Kohlsaat
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898

Studies of Peasants
Herman Saftleven II · 1625–85

Herman Binger
Unidentified Artist · c. 1850

Axel Herman Haig III
Anders Zorn · 1884

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

The Virgin Adoring the Host
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1852
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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 35371 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:55 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.