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. 13 shown for “Ida Story Hammond” — 55 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 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.
Aeneas Builds a Fleet Near Antandrus, at the Foot of Mount Ida (Aeneid, Book III)
Master of the Aeneid · ca. 1530–35
William Stone
Ida Story Hammond · c. 1890

Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul
Vilhelm Hammershøi · 1911

Thomas Henry Carter
Ida Story Hammond · c. 1890

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Tennyson's Princess
William Couper, born Norfolk, VA 1853-died Easton, MD 1942 · 1882

Cider Making
William Sidney Mount · 1840–41

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
Francesco Granacci · ca. 1506–7

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century CE

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Venus and Mercury
Jan Muller · ca. 1600

Old Woman Cutting Her Nails
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1655–60
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8449 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 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.