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 “Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm” — 62 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 14:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm · 1882

Carl Ludwig Fernow
Artist not stated in the record

Carl Ernst Christoph Hess
Ludwig Emil Grimm

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1952

Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church
Ludwig Emil Grimm · ca. 1850

Rubus gracilis Roxb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/7/97

Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12)
Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1893

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1665–67

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1944

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1951

The Crucifixion
Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1905

The Flagellation
Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1892

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1903

Study of Two Heads
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1609

Stellaria alsine Grimm
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1926
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 60288 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-06 14:52 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.