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. 18 shown for “J.C. Leyendecker, American, 1874 - 1951” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drawers
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post featuring a Pullman Porter
J.C. Leyendecker, American, 1874 - 1951 · June 17, 1922

Morning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Passiflora amethystina J.C. Mikan
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1874

Underwear
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Rosa bracteata J.C. Wendl.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1874

Cutter Yacht "Scud" of Philadelphia – Modelled by Robert L. Stevens, Esq.
Charles Parsons · 1855

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1882

The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Cleomella serrulata (Pursh) Roalson & J.C. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1951

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

Pultenaea daphnoides J.C. Wendl.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Sep 1951

Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Edgar Degas · 1871

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
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. 45 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1083244 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 21:47 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.