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. 23 shown for “Jacob at the Well” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Jacob at the Well
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Box with Rachel Meeting Jacob at the Well
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–50

Fan leaves, Tenth and eleventh plates of the set, "Divers Desseins de grands Eventails, Encrans, et autres Ornamens, inventés et gravés par Nicolas Loire"
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca. 1750

Guitar
Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel · late 17th century
Urena lobata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1985

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Centratherum punctatum Cass.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1985

Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670
Microstachys corniculata (Vahl) Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Croton lobatus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

Paullinia verrucosa Radlk. s.l.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales
Jacob Halder · ca. 1608
Euphorbia hirta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1989

The Holy Family with Shepherds
Jacob Jordaens · 1616
Caperonia palustris (L.) A. St.-Hil.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995

Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642
Euphorbia hyssopifolia L. subsp. hyssopifolia
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1995

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915
Bernardia sidoides (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915
Euphorbia hyssopifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1995
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. 13994 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1331058 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 03:59 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.