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. 11 shown for “James Queen, 1824 - 1877” — 46 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Edwin Forrest
James Queen, 1824 - 1877 · 1847

The Rival Queens – Mary Queen of Scots Defying Queen Elizabeth
Currier & Ives · 1868-1870

Albert Newsam
James Queen, 1824 - 1877 · 1868

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

King Kamehameha and Queen Kamamalu
J. W. Gear, 1768 - 1853 · 1824

A Deerhound
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826

Anopheles (Anopheles) quadrimaculatus
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1945

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

The Queen's Palace in St. James's Park, from Walter Harrison's History of London
John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c. · ca. 1750

The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy
Jean Le Noir · before 1349
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 155466 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 22:02 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.