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 “Hesse, Johann Friederich” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
David Roentgen and Company in Saint Petersburg
Johann Friedrich Anthing · ca. 1784–86

Junggesellen - Leiden or Bachelor from Leiden
Hesse, Johann Friederich · n.d.

Portrait of Johann Anton Koch
Hieronymus Hess · ca. 1823

Ehestands - Freuden
Hesse, Johann Friederich · n.d.

Harlequin
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate)
Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815 · ca. 1804

Johann Philip Bethmann
Johann Heinrich Boltschauser · 1793

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

Folding spoon
Johann Adam Boller · early 18th century

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

I) Repraesentation Der Furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspil ..Fürst und Herr Johan Friederich Hertzog zu Württemberg und Teckh.. Neuwgebornen Sohn Friderich .. etc. Fürstlicher Kindtauffen .. 10 biss 17 Marty Anno 1616
Esaias von Hulsen · ca. 1616

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

Brighella on a pedestal
Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

The Fencing Lesson
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1755

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

Dancer (one of a pair)
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1758

Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

Johann (1498–1537), Duke of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1534–37

Design for a Pendant Trophy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

Cynthio
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–55

Design for a Pendant Trophy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

Columbine
Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Design for a Pendant Trophy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77
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. 86 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. 8269 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 15:44 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.